My dad abandoned me before I was born, but before that he was enlisted in the Navy for a while. My mom said he would often misbehave and she said they basically kicked him out and my US Army veteran multi-millionaire grandpa had to pull strings in the military to get him a general discharge instead of a dishonorable discharge. But my question is, is my dad still considered a military veteran by technicality? Besides that he is a rotten person either way. As rotten as he is, can he still be considered a US military veteran?

>>64000586 (OP)
He served, he's a veteran. That's the definition. Plenty of shitbags in the military.

>>64000600
Thanks. I can proudly say my scumbag dad is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUO4xescTg

>>64000586 (OP)
Fuck ya faddah

>>64000586 (OP)
>My dad abandoned me before I was born

Time to play “guess the race of OP”

I’ll start

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>But my question is, is my dad still considered a military veteran by technicality?

He would still be considered a veteran even if he had received a dishonorable discharge. He just would be considered the equivalent of a felon and ineligible for reenlistment and benefits.

>>64000586 (OP)
Yeah a "veteran". POG shitbacks and rear D count below a civilian because they're stupid AND poor.

>geophysicist
>worked for NASA
>worked on mapping the Earth
>in the 70’s and 80’s
Was my great uncle a glowie spying on the soviets?

>>64000701
I

>>64000701
We're all White actually. My dad is 1/2 Quebecois Mediterranean through his mother.

>>64000930
Dios mio

LOL military life

Also militaryfags come from broken families
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3757947/

>Living in a single-parent household during adolescence increased odds of military enlistment, but the effect is accounted for by socioeconomic status and early feelings of social isolation. Living with a stepparent or with neither biological parent more than doubles the odds of enlistment

In my book, you're only a veteran if you've been in a war.

>>64001024
Good thing War on Terror and Drugs is still going on.

>>64001127
war on terror ended in 2021

>>64001423
Until the deep state needs to dust it off again.

>>64001024
Try life in a USCG boarding team.

>>64001725
wrong department. That's Homeland Security and not Defense. USCG personnel haven't been veterans for decades.

>>64001853
Title 38 CFR
Chapter 1
§101. Definitions
>(10) The term “Armed Forces” means the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, including the reserve components thereof.

>>64001725
I'm not saying it isn't tough but I don't call people working on an oil rig or crab trawlers veterans either.

>>64001423
If troops are still overseas you are wrong.

>>64000586 (OP)
You could pull his record from the national archives.
>https://vetrecs.archives.gov/s/