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According to the Department of Defense, of 207,000 service members that were discharged in 2014, more than 18,000 (9%) were issued less-than-honorable paperwork, with 4143 veterans (2.0%) receiving other-than-honorable discharges, 637 (0.31%) receiving bad conduct discharges, and 157 (0.08%) receiving dishonorable discharges. Between 2000 and ...
In February 1903, Saleeby received an honorable discharge in the Philippines but then received a succession of civilian appointments in the Philippines in the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, the Bureau of Moro Affairs, the Office of the Superintendent of Schools, and other departments of the American regime of occupation.
This Veterans Day, consider the injustices created by the Pentagon's subjective decisions about servicemembers' honor and shame.
A dishonorable discharge can only be imposed by a General Court Martial as a punishment for a crime and it is the civilian equivalent of a felony conviction. Does a Section 8 Discharge even exist anymore? Rws1 04:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Basically, this applies to the U.S. military. A Section 8 is a type of dishonorable discharge granted for ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Global defence contractors put their advanced hardware on display as the Philippines embarks on the latest phase of a multi-billion-dollar effort to modernise its military at a ...
A retroactive upgrade to honorable discharge status would seem to be the less controversial of the two. Thus, the "petition" would seem to encounter fewer obstacles and less resistance. More controversial, I would think, is if the military wants to "rescind" your honorable discharge and change it to dishonorable.
The G.I. Bill also provided for discharge review boards to review an appeal of any discharge other than dishonorable. From 1945 until early 1947, these boards routinely upgraded to honorable the blue discharges of homosexual service members who had not committed any known sex acts during their military service. [17]
Additionally, the discharge was processed by a Naval Board of Review, a procedure only utilized to upgrade less-than-honorable discharges, so the fact that Kerry's discharge went through such a process shows that it was a proverbial "fresh coat of paint," over a bad discharge, according to veterans.