2.  The applicant requests award of the Purple Heart.

3.  The applicant’s military records show he was inducted into the Army on         27 January 1969.  He was assigned to Vietnam on 1 July 1969 where he served as an automatic rifleman and team leader.  He attaches documentation to show that he was wounded in action on 22 April 1970.  He departed Vietnam on 2 May 1970.

4.  Army Regulation 600-8-22 provides, in pertinent part, that the Purple Heart is awarded for a wound sustained as a result of hostile action.  Substantiating evidence must be provided to verify that the wound was the result of hostile action, the wound must have required treatment by a medical officer, and the medical treatment must have been made a matter of official record.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  Attached documentation shows that the applicant is entitled to award of the Purple Heart.  Orders in his records also show that he was awarded the Air Medal.

2.  In view of the foregoing, it would be proper and just to correct the applicant’s records as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by showing that the individual is entitled to award of the Purple Heart and that the Purple Heart and the Air Medal be added to his DD Form 214.

BOARD VOTE:

                       GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

                       GRANT FORMAL HEARING

                       DENY APPLICATION

                                                                         
    CHAIRPERSON