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USA Today: Changes Sought for Vets’ Psych Disorder Discharges

Kelly Kennedy reports for USA Today:

After nearly 30,000 servicemembers were forced out of the military for “personality disorders,” often after combat service, a bipartisan House coalition hopes to require the Pentagon to review those cases in the hopes that some veterans could receive benefits. Those processed out with a “personality disorder,” which is considered a pre-existing condition, received an administrative discharge and no possibility of health benefits or disability retirement pay from the military.

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