ok so even so, i dont see how someone can prosecute you for getting pregnant. BC is only 99% effective at best. What. youre not allowed to have sex if you enlist in the army either? And if you do get pregnant, and choose not to kill the kid and actually keep it, thats "malingering?" It couldve been unintentional and unless the person you were in bed with is a senior officer, seems to me they have no way of proving intent. Im totally clueless about this whole thing, and I just want to know what terrible act s/he COULDVE done...why this is such a "big deal" to schools other than USUHSC (which is like an armed forces school in bethesda right?). If the list i quoted from wikipedia is inaccurate, can you just inform the clueless on here what things earn you an "other than honorable" discharge?
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Malingering is intentionally using a physical condition to avoid duty. If you intentionally throw your self off a ten foot cliff to try and break your leg to get out of training (don't laugh, I saw it happen) it's malingering. Pregnacy can fall into that catagory.
However, it's basically impossible to prove malingering either way, whether it is from pregnacy or some other form, that's why it is never prosecuted. You would basically have to prove that a soldier intentionally became pregnant for the sole purpose of avoiding combat duty. However, before my unit deployed, there was a precipitous rise in the number of female soldiers who became pregnant and thus "undeployable" so you can do the math. It's an Army wide phenomenum.
The link you provided was simply for discharge. You are "discharged" whenever you leave the military, regardless of the circumstances. If you successfully complete your obligation and leave under the best of circumstances (ETS) you are discharged under the catagory "honorable discharge".
Other than honorable discharges are typically handed out for people who go AWOL, beat their wife, or something else that isn't bad enough to end up in federal prison but is bad enough where the command doesn't want them around anymore. OTH discharges are basically up to the discretion of the command group and what might get you discharged in one unit might only get you an article 15 (non-judicial punishment/loss of rank and pay) in another unit. It stays on your record and will come up on a background check, that is the rub.
I won't speak for the OP on the conditions of his OTH discharge, but you can find his earlier thread by clicking on his name where he goes into the details. Like I said, by his account, it seemed a little dubious and one sided, but stranger things have happened in the Army. At any rate, I wish him all the l uck in the world. I don't think it's right that soldiers who never complete basic training and have never been a part of a real unit can get a OTH discharge which will screw with them the rest of their lives, but no one in the DOD really cares what my opinion is. At any rate, if it were me, I'd be upfront about it in my personal statement and pray for some sympathy. Trying to hide it or act like it doesn't exist will only be problematic.
