Are Iraq Veterans with PTSD getting undeserved discharges?

Submitted by rich on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 23:00.

Bob Woodruff of ABC News reports on a little known Discharge status, and questions it's application to returning Iraqi Veterans. From the article:

Donald Louis Schmidt of Chillicothe, Ill., was being treated for posttraumatic stress disorder after his second combat tour in Iraq. His commanders at Fort Carson later decided he was no longer mentally fit and discharged him with personality disorder.

"They just slapped me with that label to get me out quicker," Schmidt said. He said superiors told him "'Everything will be great. Peachy keen.' Well, it's not."

The discharge left Schmidt ineligible for disability pay and benefits. He was also required to return more than $10,000 of his $15,000 reenlistment bonus, but he said no one explained that to him until it was too late.