Discharged? Are officers discharged from the Reserves? I received 1 official Honorable Discharge, and that was 3 months before I entered active duty. My dad had to explain it to me in that I was discharged from my military obligation for the purposes of accepting a commission.
I think the terminology is wrong here. He may have been placed into the inactive reserves. And unless he resigned his commission he should still have it.
According to the article, “He was in the Army Reserves until 1992, when he transferred to inactive duty, before being discharged in 2001 as a major.”
Of course, it is the Washington ComPost, so who knows how accurate it is.