Rylee Marcotte, a technical sergeant with the Air Force who has served for about 13 years, was hoping to be able to wear her uniform to her final outprocessing appointment before being involuntarily separated. […] She was told she had to report in uniform – not civilian clothes – but a male uniform. […] “So now I am outprocessing the Air Force at Fairchild Air Force Base virtually, when four minutes south of me is the military personnel flight – I can walk there – but I’m not being allowed to walk out in uniform,” she said.

Troops are also frustrated about their service suddenly being categorized as somehow less than honorable, because it goes against many of the things they’ve been told over their many years of service, often citing years of stellar evaluations and fitness reports, awards and professional accomplishments.

“I know a couple of people, at least, who have already gotten tattoos that say ’national security threat.”