Does anyone know about medical discharge on administration grounds?
First, how long has your husband been in the army? Entry level separations, or uncharacterized discharge, are given to individuals who separate prior to completing 180 days of military service, or when discharge action was initiated prior to 180 days of service. This type of discharge does not attempt to characterize service as good or bad; however, punitive and/or administrative discharges may be given to servicemembers within their first 180 days for serious misconduct. All that basically means that if your husband had a medical problem/injury that came out within that 180 day time period, they could be moving quickly to discharge him because the less time you are in, the fewer (or no) benefits you will be eligible to receive. Now if it turns out he is just getting a medical discharge, there are different types of those which I think you already seemed to have researched…those I know a little more about because I’m a female Marine (enlisted and OCS) who pretty much blew out everyth
