Thread by @McAdooGordon

This 👇🏻is sort of technically true but misleading. Most people & articles discussing this are talking about discharges for enlisted personnel. The rules for officers- which Hunter Biden was - are a little different. /1

https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1311128403224002562

There isn’t really a “dishonorable discharge” category for officers. Drug use by an officer is mandatory grounds for involuntary separation from USN however. Whether that is General (Under Honorable Condutions) or Under Other Than Honirable Conditions, depends on the facts. /2

To say the separation was “administrative” is technically correct, but w/o knowing the Navy procedures, that word tends to made to sound like it’s less serious than it really is. A separation for drug use is considered a separation for “misconduct.” /3

An officer who is being separated on that basis who voluntarily sought out treatment, however, could still be assigned a discharge characterization of General (Under Honorable Conditions), as the USN strives to encourage treatment. /4

An officer can also be separated from the USN on a “punitive” basis (rather than administratively) thru the court martial process. The separation there is part of the penalty for conviction on criminal conduct & is called a “dismissal.”/5