They have Richard Blumenthal, (D-Con) in their corner.
Via Stars & Stripes
Five Vietnam combat veterans and three veterans’ organizations filed a class action lawsuit in federal court on Monday, seeking relief for tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans who developed post-traumatic stress disorder during their military service and subsequently received an other than honorable discharge.
Tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans received an other than honorable discharge for conduct attributable to their undiagnosed PTSD, according to a news release.
Because PTSD was not a medical diagnosis until 1980, many Vietnam Era service members who suffered from PTSD and struggled to perform their assigned duties received “bad paper” discharges instead of the medical discharges they would likely receive today, the news release stated.
Students from the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at the Yale Law School have been working on the issue for some time and recently released a report that the Coast Guard engaged in the same policy decisions with regard to PTSD.
The class action suit names the U.S. Army, Navy and the Air Force.
The law clinic, the Vietnam Veterans of America and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress put out the following press release.