How will a dishonorable discharge affect my life?

Answer 1

Tell you what you can get with an honorable discharge.
I retired after 25 years. I have a good pension. I bought a house with a VA loan. I got a Masters degree and a Doctorate on the GI bill. I got a job with a Big-5 management consulting firm from which I retired after 15 years.,, fully vested. I have free medical and dental at VA and military hospitals. I can fly just about anywhere in the world for free. Next year I'm going to move into a VA retirement home. They'll take about a fifth of my income... way less than an apartment... and I'll have room and board, two pools (do a LOT of swimming), and, if I ever need medical care... it's built into the fee. I also was a college professor and department chair. I get saluted when I go on base to go to the exchange or commissary.

This is what you get with a dishonorable.



That's the whole list.

Answer 2

I would think that you would have been told this at the time of discharge. Here is a quote from Wikipedia.

"Dishonorable
A Dishonorable Discharge (DD), like a BCD, is a punitive discharge rather than an administrative discharge. It can only be handed down to an enlisted member by a General Court-Martial. Dishonorable discharges are handed down for what the military considers the most dishonorable of conduct. This type of discharge may be rendered only by conviction at a general court-martial for offenses such as desertion, rape, or murder, calling for dishonorable discharge as part of the sentence.

With this characterization of service, all veterans' benefits are lost, regardless of past honorable service. This type of discharge used to carry a heavy stigma as it made obtaining gainful post-service employment extremely difficult. Also, many states will prohibit ownership of firearms from those who have been discharged dishonorably, as does Federal law."

Answer 3

Don't do it dude! You will be screwed forever!!! You will not be able to vote, own a gun or get a decent paying job. It's like having a felony on your civilian record. Whatever you do don't go that route. Stay away from a Bad Conduct Discharge as well. A General discharge is not that bad. You can get that one upgraded to an Honorable later on as long as you stay out of trouble. But, stay away from the Dishonorable discharge dude.

Answer 4

Not at all if you decide to become a politician or can arrange to get a political appointment.

Nothing personal, but, people who were dishonorably discharged from the military are what smart employers refer to as a risk that's avoidable.

You can blame no one for the choices you made; evidently you made some bad ones. Hopefully you will be able to overcome your past and have a very positive and productive future.

Answer 5

Well, I have an HONORABLE discharge, a 4-year college degree, no criminal record, no drug history, and I still cannot get a job as a cashier at a department store. I doubt a dishonorable discharge will be any easier. Still, a DD is really a conviction for a federal crime. Leavenworth is basically a federal prison. If anything, the UCMJ is too lenient. The vast majority of people with DDs absolutely deserved them. And another thing: This business of upgrading DD to honorable is a LOAD OF CRAP! You will need a Presidential pardon for that to happen.

Answer 6

Dishonorable or Other than Honorable?

You can only get a DD following a conviction at a general court-martial and you have to be convicted of something pretty awful for a panel or a military judge to give you a DD. I have been involved in about fifty cases in the last three years and seen exactly three DDs; the vast majority of soldiers who get a punitive discharge get a BCD.

If you've truly gotten a DD, well done to you. You've earned it and you've just bought yourself a lifetime of misery.

If you're talking about an OTH, re-post and we'll talk further,

Answer 7

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Answer 8

No only if you let it. Close one door and open another. You can start over and do something that is good for you. I take it the service wasn't and just put it hehind u and go on. Take some time and think of what you want to do from here. A dishonable discharge will hurt u only if you let it. Put it hehind you and start going down that road to a new beginning. Remember it as an experience and what has you learned from it and or gained from it. No affect only if you let it.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Depends on how long you were in the service.

The biggest problem your gonna have, is explaining the employment gap while you were in the service.

Contrary to popular belief, background checks done by civilian companies, won't even tell them you were ever in the military.

There is no way for an employer, to know you were ever in the military, unless you tell them.

Of course that doesn't apply, for jobs where you might need a security clearance.

Military records are sealed.

No one has access to them, without your written permission.

Civilian background checks, check criminal and credit records,

Your military service, won't show up on either.