Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2015 September 28

= September 28 =

Has anyone ever successfully appealed a dishonorable discharge?
In any branch of the American armed services, has any person, who is notable and an enwiki bio exists mentioning the incident, ever successfully appealed a dishonorable discharge and got it changed to honorable or at least overturned/removed from their record? I see that Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 3 partially answers my question. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:10, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * This article, which is a good overview of the difficulty behind the practice of upgrading a discharge (as it is known) notes the case of one Vincent Plummer, who does not yet have a Wikipedia article, but is noted at Columbian Harmony Cemetery as the first African-American Chaplain in the U.S. Army, and may have enough information out there to pass minimum standards for a Wikipedia article, both for his singular status as first African American Chaplain, and for the unusualness of his discharge upgrade, which took something around a century to effect. -- Jayron 32 04:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)