AIR FORCE DISCHARGE REVIEW BOARD HEARIN G RECORD
NAME OF SERVICE MEMBER (LAST, FIRST MIDDLE INITIAL)	GRADE
(b)(6)
TYPE   HON	I	PERSONAL APPEARANC E	x	I	RECORD    REVIEW
COUNSEL	NA. tE OF COUNSEL AND OR ORGAN 17..ATION	ADDRESS AND OR ORGru'(IZATION OF COUNSEL
YES	No
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VOTE OF THE BOARD
MEMBER  SITTING	HON	GEN	UOTHC	OTHER	DENY
(b)(6)	X+
X+ X+ X+
X+
ISSUES	A28.10	INDE..X  NUMBER	A22.00	EXHIBITS SUBMTITED TO THE  BOARD
I ORDER. APPOTNTrNG THE BOARD
2 APPLICATION FOR REVIEW OF DISCHARGE
3 LETIER OF NOTIFICATION
4 BRIEF OF PERSONNEL FILE COUNSEL'S RELEASE TO THE BOARD
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITS SUBMITTED AT TIME OF PERSONAL  APPEARANCE
TAPE RECORDING OF PERSONAL APPEARANC E HEARING

HEARING DATE	CASE NUMBER

06 Aug2015	FD-2015-00222
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Case heard in Washington, D.C.

Advise appl icant of the decision of the Board, the right to a personal appearance with/without counsel, and the right to submit an application to the AFBCMR.

+ CHANGE REASON AND AUTHORITY  TO SECRETARIAL  AUTHORITY
(b)(6)

INDORSEMENT	-

DATE: 8121/2015	 	

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AIR FORCE DISCHARGE REVIEW BOARD DECISIONAL RATIONALE	CASE NUMBER

FD-2015-00222	

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 (DRB) but declined and requests that the review be completed based on the available service record.

FINDING:  The Board grants the requested relief.

ISSUE:  The applicant received an Honorable discharge -Pregnancy  or Childbirth

The Air Force Discharge Review Board, under i ts 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 submitted no issues regarding the inequity or impropriety of her discharge but would like her narrative reason to be changed to "conditions interfering with duty" versus "Pregnancy or Childbirth".  The Board reviewed the entire record and found no evidence of impropriety or inequity; however, based on the facts surrounding the basis for separation, the DRB found reason to warrant a change in the narrative reason based on the potential stigma that separation for pregnancy or childbirth may have with future employers.

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, USC 1553.

Attachment: Examiner's Brief