In our discussions with soldiers who have been disabled, we found that in many cases it's taken two or three years for them to be discharged from the army. The basic problem was that the army itself doesn't really have anything for disabled soldiers. They don't really know what to do with them. They may find themselves on the base sorting paper clips.
What they need to be able to do is some type of immediate assessment, as indicated here, and have jobs they can do within the army, if it's going to take that long to have them released. Or accelerate the release, which is our suggestion here, and provide them with an accelerated pension.