Let me chime in about what I saw in 1981...
Four guys I knew from ET "A" school in Nuclear Power School class 8007 (I was in 8102) got medically discharged due to the "Triple F"--Food For Freedom--program. Actually, more than four, but these four were carrying averages of 3.6 or better, two already made E-5, and they passed the comp. What they did not pass was the final weigh in prior to transfer.
One of these was my roommate in Great Mistakes and he was very candid about his love for @#$th Vader, the Navy, and the "fat boy" program requiring him to run around the track 5-days a week.
He was not at all upset. It seems that VEPCO (now Dominion Power) picked them four guys up for I&C technicians starting at about $22,000.00/year. Now, in 1981, I don't know if that was chump change for what they were being hired to do, but at least the company was willing to get a little sweat equity out of them. He said that one of the comments the company gave him was that his "A" school and NPS average demonstrated that he was capable of being trained to do the work hired for. He was also very candid about saying that they didn't care how many Twinkies he ate in a day. I don't know if that was his embellishment or an actual comment from VEPCO, but he did intimate that VEPCO thought the Navy crazy for discharging him with his accomplishments (he was one of the E-5s).
So, my take is that it depends on what the needs of the industry is at the time you get out and what you are willing to do to get your foot into the door.