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2. Military discharge - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Honorable Service Lapel Button - Wikipedia

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   The Honorable Service Lapel Button, colloquially called "Ruptured Duck" by the members of the military, was a lapel button awarded for honorable Federal military service between 1925 and 1946. [1] The award, designed by Anthony de Francisci, was issued for wear on the left lapel of civilian clothing upon discharge.

4. Honesta missio - Wikipedia

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   Dishonorable discharge (missio ignominiosa) was the punishment for soldiers found guilty of serious crimes. These men were forbidden by law to live in Rome or to enter the imperial service, and they could be marked (branded or tattooed). They also enjoyed none of the rights and privileges granted to honorably discharged soldiers.

5. Hundreds given honorable discharges after Pentagon 'don't ask ...

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   Veterans who receive an honorable discharge are eligible for a variety of military benefits, including educational assistance, health care, loans and hiring preferences.

6. Pentagon agrees to settle with LGBTQ+ vets over 'don't ask ...

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   The deal stems from a federal civil rights lawsuit, Farrell vs. Department of Defense, filed in August 2023 by five veterans who said that the Pentagon did not grant them honorable discharges or ...

7. Pentagon to consider honorable discharges for gay veterans ...

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   Honorable discharges could make the veterans eligible for medical and other benefits. A Pentagon policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", which was in place from 1993 to 2011, barred openly gay ...

8. Section 8 (military) - Wikipedia

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   Section 8 was a category of military discharge employed by the United States Armed Forces which was used for servicemembers judged mentally unfit for service. The term "Section 8" eventually came to mean any service member given such a discharge, or behaving as if deserving such a discharge, as in the expression, "he's a Section 8".

9. Opinion: Why an 'honorable' discharge is a part of a ... - AOL

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   This Veterans Day, consider the injustices created by the Pentagon's subjective decisions about servicemembers' honor and shame.