Do you have a website or link to the OTH Dishcarge definition? I would like to read it. Thanks.
Believe its in the bupers manual, I will check, although I'm not a yeoman.
It listed the good discharges, then other than honorable circumstances, and then this paragraph:
"d. Officers separated from the service by dismissal pursuant to sentence of general court-marial shall not be awarded a certificate of discharge of any of the characters set forth above. Their only separation document shall be a letter signed by the Secretary of the Navy, or by an authority to whom he has lawfully delegated the function, informing the officer concerned of their trial, conviction, sentence, departmental action upon and approval of the sentence and fact of dismissal. This is the lowest type of separation from the naval service. It is now officially in all respects equivalent to a dishonorable discharge."
The instruction contains language that implies only enlisted members receive OTH discharges.
Perhaps JFnK received this type of discharge.