PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:  

	BOARD DATE:  30 December 1998                            
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AC98-07587/AR1998012511

	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. Robert J. McGowan		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. George D. Paxson		Chairperson	
	Ms. Sherri V. Ward		Member	
	Mr. Van B. Cunningham		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 that his DD Form 214, Report of Transfer or Discharge, be corrected:  in Block 16 (Terminal Date of Reserve/UMT&S Obligation) to reflect a date of 15 December 1972; in Block 17a (Current Active Service Other Than by Induction) to reflect “Enlisted (Prior Service)” or “Other”; and in Block 24 (Decorations, Medals, Badges) to reflect that he was an expert with the M-16 rifle.

3.  The applicant states that he discovered these errors when comparing his DD Form 214 with other documents in his service record.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he was born on 29 June 1946 and enlisted in the Delayed Entry Program (DEP), US Army Reserve, on 
16 December 1966 with a 6-year obligation.  On 6 March 1967, he enlisted in the Regular Army for 3 years.  This was his initial enlistment.

5.  The applicant’s DD Form 214 was corrected on 20 January 1998 as a result of a previous request for correction.  On that date, he was awarded the expert marksmanship qualification badge with rifle and automatic rifle bars.  His Reserve Obligation Termination Date was shown as 5 March 1973.

6.  Army Regulation 635-5, then in effect, established the standardized policy for preparing and distributing the DD Form 214.  In pertinent part, it directed that the Reserve Obligation Termination Date be 6 years the date of entry into the DEP.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant’s terminal date of his Reserve obligation should have been computed as 6 years following his date of enlistment on 16 December 1966 and not 6 years from the date he came on active duty.  This date should be 15 December 1972, not 5 March 1973.

2.  The applicant’s DD Form 214 has already been corrected to reflect his expert marksmanship with the rifle and automatic rifle.  Current regulations do not permit specification of the nomenclature of the weapons beyond rifle or pistol, etc..

3.  Block 17 of the applicant’s DD Form 214 is correct; he was not a draftee, he enlisted and was on his first enlistment.

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

RECOMMENDATION:

1.  That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by issuing to the individual concerned a DD Form 215 changing Block 16 (Terminal Date of Reserve/UMT&S Obligation) from 5 March 1973 to 15 December 1972.

2.  That so much of the application as is in excess of the foregoing be denied 

BOARD VOTE:  

________  ________  ________  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		______________________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AC98-07587/AR1998012511	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	19981230	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	(HD, GD, UOTHC, UD, BCD, DD)	
DATE OF DISCHARGE	YYYYMMDD	
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	AR . . . . .  	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	(NC, GRANT , DENY, GRANT PLUS)	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	100.0000	
2.	107.0108	
3.		
4.		
5.		
6.