Racial Disparities In Leaving Military Service

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Black veterans were disproportionately likely to leave military service with a less than honorable discharge, according to a Tuesday report by the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center which found racial disparities in separation statistics between 2015 and 2020.

The group used Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain more than one million separation documents from four of the five military branches: the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. They found that Black veterans were about twice as likely to receive a General Discharge and 1.5 times as likely to leave with an Other Than Honorable than their white colleagues.