S.C. Code Ann. § 25-1-2805: Reduction in pay grade; restoration of benefits.

Unless otherwise provided in regulations to be prescribed by the Governor or the Adjutant General, a special or general court-martial sentence of an enlisted member in a pay grade above E-2, as approved by the convening authority, that includes:

(1) a dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge; or

(2) confinement; reduces that member to pay grade E-2, effective on the date of that approval.

If the sentence of a member who is reduced in pay grade under this section is disapproved or reversed, the rights and privileges of which he was deprived because of that reduction must be restored to him and he is entitled to the pay and allowances to which he would have been entitled, for the period the reduction was in effect, had he not been so reduced.