A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the regionalization and traveling of discharge review panels; to establish guidelines for review and correction of military discharges; to provide for legal counsel for discharge applicants; to provide for the recognition of exemplary post-service conduct through the issuance of an honorable discharge (limited); and to otherwise expand and enhance the effectiveness of the Armed Forces discharge review procedures.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the Secretaries of the various armed forces to establish discharge review boards and panels and to geographically disburse such panels on the basis of population concentrations of discharge applicants. Requires such panels to travel to areas where a reasonable number of applications for review have been filed. Directs the discharge review boards and panels to review any discharge or dismissal from the armed forces granted under other than fully honorable conditions upon their own motion or upon the request of the former member or the representative of a former member. Directs the review board or panel to determine whether such discharge was fair and equitable, or in the interest of justice, by standards current at the time of review, taking into consideration all the circumstances of the case. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish guidelines and directives to be followed by the review boards and panels including specified mitigating and extenuating circumstances. Stipulates that the presence of strong mitigating factors shall normally warrant the upgrading of an other than fully dishonorable discharge to an honorable discharge, unless they are offset by serious aggr…