I served for 8 years, two of them in combat in the Infantry in Viet Nam. I didn’t have a problem getting a Honorable discharge, all you have to do is soldier up. It’s not hard.
Millions managed to do it, a few dirtbags couldn’t.
IIRC, during the Vietnam era, the only difference in benefits between honorable and general was that a service member with a general did not get a flag for his coffin, when he died after separation, which would usually be decades later.
For a dishonorable, I believe the only benefit was transportation to one’s home of record.
For bad conduct there were fewer benefits, but better than a dishonorable.
I am surprised, I would think that service related injuries are covered by the VA regardless of the nature of one’s discharge.
You served in a completely different era.
Up until a few years ago, it was normal to have an alcohol related incident. When I came in, almost every SNCO had at least one. Now, almost any alcohol related incident is a career killer. A DUI now is a general under honorable under best conditions. You also didn’t serve in an era where you practically have to get a consent form notarized before it’s considered rape. I mean, let’s be honest...current active duty live in a service where an E-8 was disciplined for having Chick Fil A at his promotion ceremony, because it offended his homosexual Major. Yes, you can get fired for liking Chick Fil A.
This isn’t even getting into the fact that it’s a scientific fact that TBIs change the neurological makeup of the brain, or anything like that.
People like you are the reason active duty military and recently separated military are blowing their brains out at an astonishingly high rate due to an unwillingness to get help or talk to people. So why don’t you shut your yap about something you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.