11.   However, if she is granted a general discharge, she could apply for a special waiver to fly for the National Guard or reserve.

12.   If she is granted less than an honorable discharge, that is, a general discharge or an other than honorable discharge, that possibility would not exist.

13.   Lts. Flinn and Kite received general discharges.

14.   She was allowed to resign from the Air Force with a general discharge, one step down from an honorable discharge.

15.   Senior Air Force officials said Widnall would be inclined to give Kite a general discharge but not an honorable one.

16.   She was prosecuted for adultery and insubordination, among other charges, and received a general discharge.

17.   So Lt. Flinn accepted a general discharge, avoiding prison for herself, a larger scandal for the Air Force.

18.   Spinner calculated that the best he could get for his client was the general discharge.

19.   Still open was the option of resignation with a general discharge, which would end the criminal case.

20.   The Air Force insists she was given a general discharge because she lied and disobeyed an order to end the affair.