how long can the army hold my husband on a discharge?

Question

My husband is in BCT he hurt his back while training and no this was not prior service, he is getting a medical discharge and all his paperwork is done, all he is waiting on is one more person to sign off his packet. The packet has been sitting on this mans desk since Tuesday and it is now Saturday. My husband has been sitting against a wall doing absolutely NOTHING for the past 2 almost 3 weeks. I need to know if there is a law on how long they can hold you there or not, he just snuck a phone call asking me to find out because someone told him they can't hold him longer than 14 days, he is only waiting this one signature before he is sent to outprocessing

Answer 1

They can "hold him" for the length of his contract..that he voluntarily signed...and just so you know..nothing in the military happens over night...and your hubby is not the only person they are sending home...



And he is getting paid, at US taxpayer expense, while "sitting against a wall doing absolutely NOTHING for the past 2 almost 3 weeks" with his only job being turning food into poop and oxygen into CO2. Cry me a river...

Answer 2

As with anything it takes time. As for getting his back "fixed," how is this going to done at home? I would hate to be a married E-1 with three dependents. The chance of him being granted a waiver on his back in six months is remote at best. The back is one of the most sensitive of all physical injuries to the Army, the other being the knee. Anything that hampers either walking or carrying is an anathema to the Army's mission. Good luck. But it may take a little longer for out-processing. I don't understand the idea of "sneaking a phone call." He could call you all day everyday from the hospital. The only place with a limitation of phone privileges is either a training platoon or the stockade. And so far as tax dollars go...the salary of an E-1 for an extra week or two is of less than no consequence to the budget.

Answer 3

The someone who told him 14 days lied to him. It takes as long as it takes. It normally takes several weeks.



Good luck on him reenlisting. Yes technically he can get a waiver for the back, but odds are he won't. Also he will be prior service which means if things are the way they have been the last serveral years he won't be able to reenlist straight to active duty anyway. Honestly if they would have thought he could continue at a later time they would have put him on medical leave not discharge him. My guess is he will get a bad RE code for renlisting.



ADD: IN reply to your last statement. Why the Army does not get it's (bleep) together. here is the deal your husband is very low priority, like it or not. He is at basic which means training Battalions and Brigades. Each Battalion at basic has between 1200 and 1400 SITs. Each Brigade has 5 or 6 battalions in it meaning they have between 6000 and 8400 SITs they have to get through and keep on schedule, get trained and get out of there in time for their AIT dates. Your husbands discharge takes alot less priority. That is a fact. A fact you will have to accept honestly sounds like it's for the best if this is your reaction over this how would you handle hold overs on deployment or the constant changes that come with the military. And you are throwing a hissy fit over nothing, mostly because your not getting what you want or what you think should be the highest priority. The fastest way out of Basic is to graduate is what a drill sergeant says and that is the truth. Doesn't sound like either of you are military material.

Answer 4

They can hold him up to 8 years. That's the contract he signed....



10. MILITARY SERVICE OBLIGATION, SERVICE ON ACTIVE

DUTY AND STOP-LOSS FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE ACTIVE

AND RESERVE COMPONENTS, INCLUDING THE NATIONAL

GUARD.



a. FOR ALL ENLISTEES: If this is my initial enlistment, I must

serve a total of eight (8) years, unless I am sooner discharged or

otherwise extended by the appropriate authority. This eight year

service requirement is called the Military Service Obligation. Any

part of that service not served on active duty must be served in the

Reserve Component of the service in which I have enlisted. If this is

a reenlistment, I must serve the number of years specified in this

agreement, unless I am sooner discharged or otherwise extended

by the appropriate authority. Some laws that affect when I may be

ordered to serve on active duty, the length of my service on active

duty, and the length of my service in the Reserve Component, even

beyond the eight years of my Military Service Obligation, are

discussed in the following paragraphs.

Answer 5

Sounds F ing fishy to me. A injury means a med board, time to heal and then deciding if the injury is healed enough to go back into Basic or bad enough to send him home. If they send him home he has a service related injury that the VA will have to evaluate, he may get a VA rating and monthly payments along with life long care for that injury. The other option is let him go as it will heal and then allow him to come back if he wants.



Have you left out a long period of time since the initial injury?

Answer 6

"Someone" has no clue. There is no law or time limit on discharges. Technically they can hold him for his entire 4 year active duty obligation. Generally they make an effort to process medical discharges as quickly as possible.

Answer 7

I comprehend it particularly is previous, yet as for candy G's remark in direction of Andy you have no longer any thought why this guy replaced into discharged and have no room to chat, or no how long he went with the aid of difficulty-loose to assert he took the placement of somebody else. He does no longer have connect if he did no longer want it issues ensue mutually as in there. Like harm my husband made it to the tip of difficulty-loose and because his run replaced into off and had gotten shin splint and had a comfortable limp HIS DRILL SARGENT concept it replaced into terrific to be sent domicile to sit down down back and artwork on his run. in the event that they saved him and sent him to "fat camp" he could have in straight forward terms gotten injury. he's being sent domicile with the choice to reenlist in 6 months. before you talk down on a guy who positioned his foot forward and left his relatives for 10 weeks to commence a occupation in a container to shield human beings such as you think of FIRST, its no longer that no longer trouble-free!!!!

Answer 8

Once he is Discharged there will be "NO" Re-enlisting EVER !!!!



Strongly suggest that he obtain Hard Copies

of Any & All of his Medical Records...

Is going to need them ASAP...

He is entitled to have them under the UCMJ...

Answer 9

It shouldn't be much longer,his shift from the blue oyster is almost over.