[BobS]

A BCD is a sentence to a military prison. I never knew people like that. The ones that got kicked out that I knew were sent on their way with a General Discharge; usually for stupid feats. Use your imagination about those feats. One guy lost 2 stripes for selling his ciggie ration on the black market. And he didn't smoke! Another guy brought a bunch of hookers on base in an AF truck!

I quietly stepped away from those guys and left with an Honorable Discharge.

[Conservative Infidel]

I saw guys getting kicked out of the Navy in the early eighties with BCDs for drug use--after the Nav started cracking down on that stuff. I do not think that it is unusual to get a BCD and not do time. However, what I personally found criminal, was after I was honorably discharged in 1983 and went on job interviews the prospective employers didn't give a rat's rear end what my discharge status was.