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If a person served in the Air Force for 10 years and received an honorable discharge but then when he was in the Air National Guard he received an, Other Than Honorable discharge. Can we use his DD 214 from the Air Force and ignore the Air National Guard or does the Air National Guard (OTH) cancel his Air Force (honorable)? If we used his honorable discharge to qualify him do we have to use his OTH to disqualify him?
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Hi Demetria,
To "qualify" or "disqualify" him for what?
For a job requirement. He needs an honorable discharge with active duty for at least 24 months which he has from the Air Force. What do we do about the OTH from the Air National Guard does that some how cancel his Air Force Honorable Discharge?
Hi Demetria,
I'm afraid I don't know, as I don't know the requirements of the company that is looking to hire him.
He has earned an honorable discharge from the Air Force. The OTH from the Air National Guard does not replace this, nor does it cancel it out. He has two discharges -- One is honorable from the Air Force, and the other is "Other Than Honorable" from the Air National Guard. How the employer chooses to treat this is totally up to them.
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the planet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. Additionally, he is the author of "ASVAB for Dummies," "ASVAB AFQT for Dummies," (available in Dec 2009), and "Veteran Benefits for Dummies," all published by Wiley Publishing. He is also the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series.
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Rod Powers is a retired Air Force first sergeant, with 23 years of active duty service, 11 of those years as an Air Force First Sergeant. He has helped thousands of military members, recruits, and military applicants since he took over the About.com U.S Military Careers Information site in 1999. He has a reputation for "telling it like it is," so questions may not be answered based on "what you want to hear," but will be answered based of the bast available information, concerning the service/situation.
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Rod is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Noncommissioned Officers Academy, the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, and the Air Force First Sergeant Academy. He also holds an Associates Degree in Personnel Administration from the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF).
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