PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:        

	BOARD DATE:            15 September 1999                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:    AR1998013525

	I certify that hereinafter is recorded the true and complete record of the proceedings of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in the case of the above-named individual.  

	Mr. Loren G. Harrell		Director	
	Mr. Walter Avery, Jr. 		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. James M. Alward		Chairperson	
	Mr. Ted S. Kanamine		Member	
	Ms. Kathleen A. Newman		Member	

	The applicant and counsel if any, did not appear before the Board.

	The Board considered the following evidence:

	Exhibit A - Application for correction of military 
                records
	Exhibit B - Military Personnel Records (including
	            advisory opinion, if any)

FINDINGS:

1.  The applicant has exhausted or the Board has waived the requirement for exhaustion of all administrative remedies afforded by existing law or regulations.

2.  The applicant requests his DD Form 214 be amended to reflect a separation date of 8 August 1996.

3.  The applicant states he attended 7lL (Administrative Specialist) Advance Individual Training (AIT), at the Adjutant General School, Fort Jackson, South Carolina.  A submitted diploma indicates he graduated from the Administrative Specialist Course on 7 August 1996.  The appellant submitted a DD Form 214, and Department of the Army, Headquarters Fort Jackson Orders 178-819, releasing him from the 120th Adjutant General Battalion to Company B, 369th Adjutant General Battalion, 4th Training Brigade for approximately eight weeks of military occupational specialist (MOS) training.  Also submitted is Department of the Army, United States Army Reserve, Headquarters, 104th Division (IT) Orders 96-253-068, which reassigned the appellant to the Headquarters 6th Brigade (PD) with duty MOS of 7lL10, effective 1 September 1996.

4.  The military records available contain no orders or entries that indicate an active duty assignment after the applicant’s 7 August 1996 AIT graduation. 

5.  The DD Form 214 reflects that the applicant entered active duty on 
19 June 1996, attended and completed the eight-week Administrative Specialist Course, and separated from service on 18 June 1997.  
 
6.  His DD Form 214 shows that he was awarded the Army Service Ribbon, Sharpshooter Badge with Grenade Bar and Marksman Badge with rifle bar.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The available records and documents provided by the appellant do indicate that his separation date from active duty is 8 August 1996, as he contends.  

2.  Orders and Diploma available indicate the appellant attended and completed AIT on 7 August 1996.  There are no orders or military record entries to indicate any subsequent active duty assignment.  However, orders are present that indicates the appellant was reassigned within the US Army Reserves as a 7lL efffective 1 September 1996.

3.  In view of the foregoing, the applicant’s records should be corrected as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by reflecting the applicant’s separation date as 8 August 1996.

BOARD VOTE:  

_jma____  _tsk_____  _kan____  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		_James M. Alward_______
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999023515	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	19990915	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	(HD, GD, UOTHC, UD, BCD, DD, UNCHAR)	
DATE OF DISCHARGE	YYYYMMDD	
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	AR . . . . .  	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	GRANT	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	112.07	
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