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1	ORDER APPOINTING THE BOARD
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ADDITIONAL EXHIBITS SUBMITTED AT TIME OF PERSONA L APPEARANCE
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KEA.RING DATE	CASE NUMBER

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AIR FORCE DISCHARGE REVIEW BOARD DECISIONAL RATIONALE	CASE NUMBER

FD-2015-00210	

GENERAL: The applicant appeals for a change to the reason and authority for the discharge.

The applicant was offered a personal appearance before the Discharge Review Board (ORB) but declined and requests that the review be completed based on the available service record.

The attached brief contains available pertinent data on the applicant and the factors leading to the discharge. FINDING: The Board grants the request to change the reason and authority for discharge.
The Board finds that neither the evidence of record nor that provided by the applicant substantiates an impropriety that would justify a change of discharge. However, based upon the record and evidence provided by applicant, the Board finds the applicant's reason for discharge to be inequitable.

ISSUE: The applicant received an Honorable discharge for failure to complete a commissioning program.

The Air Force Discharge Review Board, under its responsibility to examine the propriety and equity of an applicant's discharge, is authorized to change the characterization of service and the reason for discharge if such change is warranted. In reviewing discharges, the Board presumes regularity in the conduct of governmental affairs unless there is substantial credible evidence to rebut the presumption, to include evidence submitted by the applicant. The Board completed a thorough review of the circumstances that led to the discharge and the discharge process to ensure the discharge met the pertinent standards of equity and propriety. The applicant's record of service included nine punitive officer trainee memoranda for record (OTMRs).

The applicant contends the discharge was inequitable because it was too harsh. He contends that his removal from Otlicer Training School (OTS), just three days before graduation, was contrary to policies and  traditions and based on subjective and capricious reasons. He claims that he was unfairly removed because his supervisors did not like him and that the nine punitive OTMRs he received at most should have been
demerits. The ORB considered the applicant's record at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and OTS, as well as the many character letters he provided in support of his application.  The ORB also considered that the notice of disenrollment was not served on the applicant until just days prior to his anticipated graduation from OTS. The ORB opined that the administrative actions taken did not afford the applicant sufficient opportunity to change his negative behavior. The ORB found that more effective administrative tools, less severe than the nine punitive OTMRs, were available and not utilized. Although
the Board does not condone the applicant's misconduct, it concluded that, based on the facts and circumstances presented, the reason for his discharge is more appropriately described as "Secretarial Authority".

A discharge is upgraded only if the applicant and the Board can establish that an inequity or impropriety took place at the time of discharge. After a thorough review of the record, the Board found evidence to justify a change to the reason for the discharge.

CONCLUSION: The Discharge Review Board concludes that the discharge was consistent with the procedural and substantive requirements of the discharge regulation and was within the discretion of the discharge authority and the applicant was provided full administrative due process.	

However, in view of the foregoing findings, the Board concludes that the reason for the discharge is more accurately described as Secretarial Authority under the provisions of Title 10, United States Code, Section 1553.

Attachment: Examiner's Brief