While post-traumatic stress disorder is now widely recognized, it wasn’t a known diagnosis until 1980. As a result, many veterans were discharged for post-traumatic stress symptoms during the Vietnam era, and some received less than honorable discharges.
A class action lawsuit is trying to change that, though. Read about it here: “Vietnam Veterans, Discharged Under Cloud, File Suit Saying Trauma Was Cause“, via NY Times.com.