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Right2Carry wrote:
I'm guessing that he's taking up the torch since the OP got booted?

Interesting. I'm new here and missing something... How did the OP get booted?

One important difference in types of military discharges should be whether the veteran served in a combat zone or not.

I have a brother that served 20 years in the Marine Corps, going in as a private and progressing through the enlisted ranks through master sergeant to warrant officer to OCS and finally commissioned officer, retiring as a captain. He did serve a lot of missions as "the guy in back" (radio/radar technician) in a 2-man all-weather fighter/bomber in the Korean conflict.

I asked what he thought of veterans receiving benefits that had general discharge (under honorable conditions) versus honorable discharge. He said that he needed a lot more info about the veteran's service record to make any kind of judgement and without that info would have to assume there was some disciplinary problem for the general discharge but that the veteran's overall contribution to the cause was probably pretty much the same - unless one was in a combat area and the other was not. He could see providing additional benefits to combat veterans whether their discharge type was Honorable or General but not otherwise.

Just another perspective...