Proposal to remove a discriminatory requirement for honorary promotions of retired military members

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1. The bill would remove the 20-year service requirement for military members who retire after losing their physical or mental fitness outside of an act of service. Under the reform, they could receive an honorary promotion under the same conditions as everyone else, as long as what happened was not due to their own lack of skill, negligence or bad faith.
2. The bill would extend honorary ranks to professional enlisted members of Tropa y Marinería holding the ranks of cabo primero, cabo or soldado who retire due to loss of physical or mental fitness during an act of service. Upon request, they could receive the honorary rank of cabo mayor, cabo primero or cabo.
3. Granting these honorary ranks would have no economic effect and would not change the retiree's pension. The law would take effect the day after its publication in the Official State Gazette.

Who it affects

• Lieutenant colonels, commanders and captains retired due to loss of physical or mental fitness: They could receive an honorary promotion even if the loss of fitness did not occur during an act of service, without the 20-year service requirement.
• Non-commissioned officers retired due to loss of physical or mental fitness: They could receive the honorary rank of teniente under the same conditions, even if it was not during an act of service.
• Professional enlisted members of Tropa y Marinería (cabo primero, cabo or soldado) retired due to loss of physical or mental fitness: They could request the honorary rank of cabo mayor, cabo primero or cabo.

Words worth knowing

Empleo honorífico (honorary rank)

A symbolic distinction that recognizes a retired military member with a higher rank, with no economic effect and no change to their pension.

Insuficiencia de condiciones psicofísicas (loss of physical or mental fitness)

Loss of the physical or mental capacity needed to keep serving in the Armed Forces.

Proposición de ley (bill)

A text proposed by the Senate or the Congress to become a law. It is not an approved law until it completes the legislative process.

Tropa y Marinería (enlisted personnel)

Professional military members holding the lowest ranks in the Armed Forces, such as soldiers and corporals.

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