Vets Should 'Get Out In The Streets' To Protest Handling Of 'Bad Paper', Experts Say

Would hate to be in charge of rectifying this situation to identify which discharges are unwarranted by any standard, esp nowadays, and those who deserved to be kicked down the road. I signed many a DD256 and 257s in my day all of which I felt were warranted and justified to get rid of trash who were clogging up the wheels of my MC. Bad eggs everyone, slimers, scumballs and worse who lived on the margins of society as civilians and more so in the MC. If a person is not fit for duty as a Mariane, what the hell is he fit for? Not much. People were given the choice of entering the service or going to jail. They did not turn their lives around when they took the oath, the oath meant nothing to them. Any employer has the right to fire an employee for any or no reason, that's the law of the land as it stands in most localities.

PO1 Tony Holland This can be handle correctly through the Veterans March on America during Armed Forced day coming up on 19 May 2018. Check out Victory for Veterans events for more details.

https://victoryforveterans.org/events/march/

More activism is needed. HOWEVER, it needs to be applied to the appropriate items and areas. Yes, there is injustice in how a number of CURRENT discharges have been handled and they have not been handled equitably.
Now as far as past discharges for homosexuality goes, DO NOT GET BLINDSIDED; some of those discharges do not deserve to be upgraded. It is one thing to be caught in a 'gay' bar, when compared to being caught assaulting someone in the barracks. You would think that with all of the mandatory SHARP training going on, that someone would or should have figured that out by now. And what about those that used homosexuality as an EXCUSE to get out of the service, should their discharges be upgraded also?
For all of this, there are way too many both inside and outside the service, hollering for blanket upgrades, whether they realize it or not.

And for some of you, crapping your drawers does not mean that you have PTSD, it might mean that you had a case of diarrhea.

I would also second what Corey King had to say: "We live in an alarmist society, where few are responsible for their actions. No one should jump the gun and upgrade discharges. Each case must be looked at individually. It is quite difficult to kick out a trouble maker. I'm sure individuals were treated unfairly, but not wholesale."