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11. Yea

Reply to haele (Reply #9)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 02:52 AM

Nov 2013

but that's a general discharge under honorable conditions (so full benefits). The article is about people receiving BCD's for their own conduct, but the point of the article is that the number of BCD's from combat vets is much higher than others, suggesting that they are probably suffering from combat induced mental illness of some sort -- and thus should receive medical discharges.

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Yea Sgent Nov 2013 #11

Mental problems have pretty much been treated with the brig, then discharge haele Nov 2013 #12