PlanetJosh
Golden Member
It was hard to describe my question in the limited title space. So let's say the U.S government wants to hire a U.S. military veteran for an important civil service job like a doctor or engineer. And if the veteran has a less than honorable discharge would the government upgrade the discharge to honorable in order to convince the veteran to take the job offer? Of course the vet would also get a decent salary for the job.
I'm not necessarily talking about veterans with PTSD although that's a possibility in regard to my question. There are already federally supported organizations to help vets with PTSD and bad discharges to get them upgraded to honorable. What I'm suggesting sounds a little like a conspiracy thing but I'm not trying to troll.
I've done searches on the net about it but no luck so far. Here's an article in the link below about the upgrade review process. It indicates that good citizenship and a good post service history alone are not reason enough to get an upgrade but they can be used to impress the review board. The article doesn't really address the situation of promising an upgrade in exchange for a vet accepting a job offer.
http://www.dd214.us/reference/DischargeUpgrade_Memo.pdf
I'm not necessarily talking about veterans with PTSD although that's a possibility in regard to my question. There are already federally supported organizations to help vets with PTSD and bad discharges to get them upgraded to honorable. What I'm suggesting sounds a little like a conspiracy thing but I'm not trying to troll.
I've done searches on the net about it but no luck so far. Here's an article in the link below about the upgrade review process. It indicates that good citizenship and a good post service history alone are not reason enough to get an upgrade but they can be used to impress the review board. The article doesn't really address the situation of promising an upgrade in exchange for a vet accepting a job offer.
http://www.dd214.us/reference/DischargeUpgrade_Memo.pdf
