Deaf students push for right to serve in military
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Students and teacher at the North Carolina School for the Deaf are pushing for the right of the hearing-impaired to serve in the military.
The News-Herald of Morganton reported that students and teachers from the school went to Washington, D.C., late last week to push for legislation that would allow a test group to enlist in the Air Force.
They endorsed two bills in Congress that would require the Air Force to carry out a program to assess the feasibility of giving people with hearing problems the right to become officers.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Civics teacher David Bird said deaf people should have the right to serve in noncombat roles.
Bird says it's a matter of deaf people being treated equally with those who can hear.