What is Section Eight?
1.
A U.S. Army discharge based on military assessment of psychological unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable.
The slang: A soldier given such a discharge or behaving as if deserving such a discharge.
Lastweek he was sent down to Da Nang to see the Navy head shrinker, and the crazyfucker starts jerking off in the waiting room. Instant Section Eight. He was just waiting for his papers to clear
division. - Full Metal Jacket
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01: A U.S. Army discharge based on military assessment of psychological unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable.
02: Any soldier given such a discharge or behaving as if deserving such a discharge.
03: Any person that's considered: anti-social, mentally-ill, a wrong number, a lunatic, a madman, a unstabled personality, a unstabled creature or a deranged person.
Section eight as in what's going on in your head, not with you having Social and Rehabilitation Services paying the rent and et cetera, et cetera.