Learn how two lawsuits against the Air Force and the Department of Defense may impact your discharge and DD Form 214.
1) The Air Force lawsuit "challenges the AFDRB’s systemic denial of discharge status upgrades to Air Force veterans who (1) served during the Iraq and Afghanistan era, (2) received less-than-Honorable discharges, and (3) incurred service-connected mental health conditions such as PTSD (and related conditions), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), or experiences of MST or IPV. (Intimate Partner Violence). They allege that the Air Force has arbitrarily and capriciously failed to apply DoD’s policy of liberal consideration to discharge upgrade applications filed by these veterans."
2) The DoD lawsuit alleges that the "Government’s discriminatory dismissal of LGBTQ+ service members on the basis of their actual or perceived “homosexuality” was unconstitutional. Likewise, the Government’s issuance of DD-214 forms with discriminatory narrative reasons for separation, separation codes, and reenlistment bars is unconstitutional. LGBTQ+ veterans are not treated equally to other veterans, who are issued dismissal paperwork free of references to their sexual orientation."
The plaintiffs asks the Court to require Defendants to conduct a comprehensive review of every discharge processed pursuant to DADT and its predecessor policies and systematically remove all indicators of sexual orientation—including (1) narrative reasons for separation, and (2) affiliated separation codes from veterans’ DD-214s (and reenlistment codes)—and to require the Defendants to systematically upgrade discharge characterizations to Honorable.
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