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To qualify for a VIC, a veteran must have served in the US military (including the reserve components) and have received a discharge of honorable or general under honorable conditions. [5] Those with an uncharacterized or unknown discharge may also qualify, provided a review by the VA to ascertain their eligibility determines they are eligible ...
For example, if your discharge was classified as “less than honorable,” you can go through the VA’s Character of Discharge review process, which can take up to a full year. Why are COEs ...
Receive VA pension or disability benefits; Make less than US$62,000 annually; Honorable, General, or Other-Than-Honorable, Clemency, Bad Conduct Discharge; Veterans who are disqualified. Dishonorable Discharge: with this characterization of service, all veterans' benefits are lost, regardless of any past honorable service
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 ...
This Veterans Day, consider the injustices created by the Pentagon's subjective decisions about servicemembers' honor and shame.
Most of the 13,000 service members the Pentagon says were separated from the military under don't ask, don't tell received honorable discharges, but about 2,000 received dishonorable discharges.
Blue discharges were discontinued as of July 1, 1947, and two new headings, general and undesirable, took their place. [25] A general discharge was considered to be under honorable conditions—distinct from an "honorable discharge"—and an undesirable discharge was under conditions other than honorable—distinct from a "dishonorable ...
The U.S. Department of Defense will consider granting honorable discharges to more than 30,000 gay and bisexual veterans who were barred from serving in the military because of their sexual ...