PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:  

	BOARD DATE:  10 November 1999                           
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999016899

	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	
	Ms. Rosa M. Chandler		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Ms. Irene N. Wheelwright 		Chairperson	
	Mr. Curtis L. Greenway		Member	
	Ms. Margaret V. Thompson		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, in effect, correction of the following items on her DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) issued on 18 June 1988.  (a) Correct item 12a (date entered AD this period) by deleting 780525 and adding 750305; (b) Correct item 12c (Net active service this period) by deleting 880618 and adding 130309; (c) Correct item 12d (total prior active service) by deleting 050704 and adding 020328.  She also requests that her DD Form 214 be corrected to show that she completed the Fixed Plant Carrier Equipment Repair Course.  

3.  The applicant states that she submits in support of her request, her certificate of completion of the Fixed Plant Carrier Equipment Repair Course and a copy of her DA Form 2-1 (Personnel Qualification Record).

4.  The applicant’s military records show that she initially enlisted in the Regular Army (RA) and served from 17 August 1971-14 December 1973.  She was issued a DD Form 214, and honorably discharged after she had completed 
2 years, 3 months, and 28 days of active military service.  

5.  The applicant served in the US Army National Guard (ARNG) from 
16 January 1974 through 4 January 1975.  She was honorably discharged after she completed 11 months, and 19 days of inactive military service.  Her total inactive service is incorrectly calculated to equal 8 months and 4 days. 

6.  On 4 March 1975, she reenlisted in the RA for four years, training in military
occupational specialty (MOS) 32E (Fixed Plant Carrier Repairman, pay grade 
E-4 and a $2,500 enlistment bonus.  On 30 October 1975, she graduated after 
29 weeks of attending the Fixed Plant Carrier Equipment Repair Course, at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.  The Fixed Plant Carrier Equipment Repair Course is shown on her honorable discharge certificate issued on 22 September 1977.  She had completed 2 years, 6 months, and 19 days of active military service. 

7.  The applicant’s DD Form 214 issued on 22 September 1977 erroneously shows prior inactive service as 8 months and 4 days.  Her prior inactive service equals 11 months and 19 days.

8.  The applicant reenlisted in the RA and served from 23 September 
1977 through 24 May 1978, she was honorably discharged and issued a DD Form 214 after she had completed 8 months and 2 days of active military service.  

9.  Again her prior inactive service is erroneously shown on this DD Form 214 to equal 8 months and 4 days.  Her prior inactive service still equals 11 months and 19 days.

10.  The applicant reenlisted in the RA and served from 25 May 1978 through 
18 June 1988.  She was honorably discharged after she had served 10 years, and 24 days on this last period of active duty.  She had also completed 5 years 
6 months and 7 days of total prior active service.  

11.  However, the DD Form 214 issued on 18 May 1988 erroneously shows that she had completed 5 years, 7 months and 4 days of total prior active service.  Her prior inactive service is erroneously shown to equal 11 months and 4 days.  Total prior inactive service equals 11 months and 19 days. 

12.  Army Regulation 635-200, then in effect, set forth the basic authority for the separation of enlisted personnel.  That regulation provided, in pertinent part, that a DD Form 214 would be prepared for each period of active service.

CONCLUSIONS:

1. The applicant was issued a DD Form 214 for each period of service that she completed. Therefore, the date that she entered active military service (25 May 1978) is correct as it is shown on her DD Form 214 issued on 18 June 1988. 

2.  At the time of her discharge in June 1988, since a DD Forms 214 had been issued for each of her three prior periods of active duty, her DD Form 214 issued in 1988 only showed a cumulative accounting (5 years, 7 months, and 4 days) of prior active service.  It was not added to her last period of active duty between 1978 and 1988.

3.  The Fixed Plant Carrier Equipment Repair Course is shown in item 
27 (Remarks) on the applicant’s DD Form 214 issued on 22 September 1977.  Item 14 (Military Education) on her DD Form 214, issued on 18 June 1988 is correct as it is shown.  Military training is shown during the period of service in which it is completed.

4.  The applicant is entitled to have item 12d (total prior active service), of her DD Form 214, issued on 18 June 1988 corrected to show 5 years 6 months and 
7 days.  She is also entitled to have item 12e (inactive service) corrected to show 11 months and 19 days. 

5.  The applicant’s is also entitled to have item 16d (total inactive service) corrected on both her DD Forms 214 issued on 22 September 1977, and on
24 May 1978 corrected to show 11 months and 19 days.

6.  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 which shows that the DD Form 214 issued to her on 18 June 1988 is corrected to show:

a.  that in item 12d her total prior active service equals 5 years 6 months 
and 7 days; and 

b.  that in item 12e her total inactive service equals 11 months and 
19 days.

2.  That the individual concerned be issued a DD Form 215 which shows that the DD Form 214 issued to her on 24 May 1978 is corrected to show in item 16d that her prior inactive service equals 11 months and 19 days; and 

3.  That the individual concerned be also issued a DD Form 215 which shows that the DD Form 214 issued to her on 22 September 1977 is corrected to show in item 16d that her prior inactive service equals 11 months and 19 days. 

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

BOARD VOTE:  

INW____  CLG_____  MVT____  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		______________________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999016899	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	19991110	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	(HD)	
DATE OF DISCHARGE		
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	A100.0000  	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	(PARTIAL GRANT)	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	100.0200	
2.	100.0700	
3.		
4.		
5.		
6.