Retirement nets you an honourable discharge, but not all honourably discharged personnel are retirees. If you enlist for three, four, etc. years, perform your duties like you're supposed to, and decide not to reenlist, you're discharged when your contract expires. You receive an honourable discharge based on the character of your service. Someone who retires still receives such a discharge, but now we're talking about someone who has reenlisted multiple times, and will be collecting a pension.
The official term is "Honorable Discharge." There are "Dis-Honorable Discharges" and because of the Vietnam War...now a "General Discharge."
That is the condition of being active or non-active, an honorably or dishonorably discharged veteren in the armed forces.
You can always re-enlist with an honorable discharge. Also, being gay is no longer an issue.
He received his formal draft notice the 3rd week of December 1957 and he served honorably until being discharged in 1960.
There is not. You have to either be in the service now or have been honorably discharged from the service.
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A person cannot be discharged from the U.S. military for being gay.
If they were discharged for being wounded in action then it may be in reference to the Medical Officers Report or possibly in the military bureaucracy it is Memorandum Of Record.
You may be discharged from the military for any condition that prevents your ready deployment. You may also be discharged for not disclosing a previously known condition, and such cases you could be charged and court marshaled.
No. Persons who are "retired" are considered to be out of the labor pool and ineligible for unemployment insurance.
Yes, she was married (after being discharged from the military), but her husband stole her money and horses and ran off.
Yes, she was married (after being discharged from the military), but her husband stole her money and horses and ran off.
Private Lee Harvey Oswald, despite two court martials and one "office hours" was honorably separated from active duty USMC as customary by a hardship separation being approved. However, he was still under an inactive obligation which terminated with an undesirable, now called other than honorable, discharge when he offered classified material in exchange for USSR citizenship.