Hello again,

I think I remember assisting you before with this general issue. I assume that you have looked at the regulation which was AR 135-178 that I provided you a link to before. If you did, you would see that if you can establish the facts that show a legitimate religious ordination, your discharge would actually be mandatory upon your request. In other words, the NG cannot deny your discharge, assuming you meet the requirements. You want to go to Chapter 15-1 of the Regulation for more information and yes this is an administrative discharge which will be an Honorable Discharge.

As for form and substance, this is submitted to your Commander in the standard Memorandum form with the subject line being Chapter 15-1 b-request for discharge in accordance with this Chapter and section based on your ordination as a minister, or words to that effect. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you need to reference the section you are using as authority and then in the paragraphs that follow you must state why you qualify as set out in the Chapter and section that I referenced.

If you have lost the link or don't have a hard copy in front of you, then you can find the Regulation at: http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/r135_178.pdf

As for my practice, I probably wasn't very clear in my initial response. We have signed an agreement with JustAnswer that says we cannot form any outside professional relationship with the customers from JustAnswer, so I couldn't assist you on the outside. I am sorry about that.