Preliminary Study of the Scholastic Progress of Veterans with Honorable and General Discharges
This study compared the academic performance at a two-year college of veterans with honorable discharges and with general discharges under honorable conditions (all receiving G.I. benefits). A search of the files of veterans no longer enrolled at the college identified 19 veterans with general discharges (about 1.5% of the veterans). These veterans were compared with a random sample of 19 veterans with honorable discharges who were no longer enrolled at the college. The two groups did not differ in year of birth (Ms = 1950.3 and 1946.5, respectively; SDs 5.8 and 7.8; t = 1.67, d f = 36), their year of discharge or the year in which they began college. No veteran with a general discharge had graduated from the college whereas 4 of those with honorable discharges had graduated (Fisher exact test, p = 0.05). The veterans with general discharges had attempted fewer