The Secretary of the Navy has announced a new administrative separation policy for Sailors and Marines with PTSD and TBI. In the past, misconduct often took precedence over mental health conditions. Previously a service member’s misconduct took precedence over diagnosed mental health conditions when considering separation, which impacted the veteran’s ability to receive benefits. Now, if...

In every Army discharge review board and Board for Correction of Military Records case, the board writes a decisional document. We recently received a decision in a PTSD case. I won’t divulge many facts, but it was a case where the board upgraded an Other than Honorable discharge to a General discharge. We went back...