Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A dishonorable discharge, colloquially referred to as a "duck dinner", is the worst type of discharge in the US military. It can only be handed down to a military member by a general court-martial : dishonorable discharges are rendered by conviction from a general court-martial for exceptionally serious offenses (e.g., treason , espionage ...
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".
In military law, a reduction in rank or degradation [1] is a demotion in military rank as punishment for a crime or wrongdoing, imposed by a court-martial or other authority. It may be imposed in conjunction with other punishments, such as a bad conduct or dishonorable discharge, loss of wages, confinement to barracks, or imprisonment in a ...
This Veterans Day, consider the injustices created by the Pentagon's subjective decisions about servicemembers' honor and shame.
It is especially associated with the public degradation of disgraced military officers. Prior to World War I, this aspect of cashiering sometimes involved a parade-ground ceremony in front of assembled troops with the destruction of symbols of status : epaulettes ripped off shoulders, badges and insignia stripped, swords broken, caps knocked ...
When the policy was repealed in 2011, many of those who had been dishonorably discharged were able to appeal their cases and received upgrades to honorable discharges, but the Pentagon last year ...
A blue discharge, also called blue ticket, was a form of administrative military discharge formerly issued by the United States beginning in 1916. It was neither honorable nor dishonorable. The blue ticket became the discharge of choice for commanders seeking to remove homosexual service members from the ranks.
— The Maine National Guard does not court martial soldiers for violations of the Maine Code of Military Justice, so there's no path to discharge soldiers dishonorably.