AIR FORCE DISCHARGE REVIEW BOARD HEARING RECORD
NAME OF SERVICE MEMBER (LAST, FIRST MlDDLI INITIAL)	GRADE
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ISSVES	ASS.07	INDEX NUMBER	A66.00	EXDIBITSSUBMITTED TO 11fE BOARD
.	1 ORDER APPOrNTrNG THE BOARD
2  APPLICATION FOR REVIEW OF DISCHARGE
3 LETTER OF NOTIFICATION
4 BRIEF OF PERSONNEL FILE
COUNSEL'S RELEASE TO THE BOARD
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITS SUBMf!TED AT TIME OF PERSONAL APPEARANCE
TAPE RECORDING OF PERSONAL APPEARANCE HEARING

HEARING DAT!!.	CASE NUMBER

30 Mar 2016	FD-2015-00467
APPUCANTS ISSUE ANO nth llO.\IUl    Dt( L\JONAL RATIONALEAREDISO.ISSED ONTHEAITACllED A11t FOl\CEDISOIAROli REVIEW BOAIUHltCISIONA!. RATIONALE

Case heard in Washington, D.C.

Advise applicant 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.

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AIR FORCE DISCHARGE REVIEW BOARD DECISIONAL RATIONALE	CASE NUMBER

FD-2015-00467	

GENERAL: The applicant appeals for upgrade of discharge characterization to Honorable .

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.

The attached brief contains available pertinent data on the applicant and the factors leading to the discharge. FINDING: The Board denies the upgrade of the discharge characterization.
The Board finds the applicant submitted no issues contesting the equity or propriety of the discharge, and after a thorough review of the record, the Board was unable to identify any that would justify a change of discharge.

ISSUE: The applicant received a General discharge for Misconduct - Misconduct (Drug Abuse)

The Air Force Discharge Review Board, under its responsibi lity 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 one Article 15 for wrongful use of marijuana, three Letters of Reprimand for failure to go, and two Letters of Counseling for failure to go and improper wear of his uniform.

The applicant submitted no issues regarding the inequity or impropriety of his discharge. The applicant explains that his past has made him a better person. He wants his employer to know that what he did while in the Air Force, while deployed and while at his home station, was honorable. After review of the record, the Board found no evidence to indicate that the applicant did not know right from wrong or that in his almost two years of service was unaware of the Air Force policy of zero tolerance to drug use. The Board found that the negative aspects of the applicant's willful misconduct outweighed the positive aspects of his duty performance and concluded that the discharge was appropriate.

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 no evidence to justify an upgrade of the discharge characterization.

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

In view of the foregoing findings, the Board further concludes that there exists no legal or equitable basis for upgrade of discharge and determines the discharge should remain unchanged.

Attaclunent: Examiner's Brief