PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:  

	BOARD DATE:           29 September 1999                   
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999017185

	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	
	Mrs. Nancy Amos		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. Fred N. Eichorn		Chairperson	
	Mr. Thomas A. Pagan		Member	
	Ms. Meta Waller		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 the Combat Infantryman Badge be added to his DD Form 214.

3.  The applicant states that he was in the required combat and meets all the requirements.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he enlisted in the Regular Army on 6 November 1964.  He completed basic combat training and advanced individual training and was awarded military occupational specialty 11B (Light Weapons Infantryman).  

5.  The applicant arrived in Vietnam on 16 January 1966 and was assigned to Company A, 2d Battalion 27th Infantry where he performed duties as an 11B grenadier.  He was wounded in April 1966, was medically evacuated stateside and was awarded the Purple Heart.  He completed his term of enlistment, was awarded the Army Good Conduct Medal, and was released from active duty on  3 November 1967.

Army Regulation 600-8-22 provides for the award of the Combat Infantryman Badge to a soldier who is an infantryman satisfactorily performing infantry duties, who is assigned to an infantry unit during such time as the unit is engaged in active ground combat, and must actively participate in such ground combat.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant was an infantryman who met the regulatory requirements for award of the CIB.

2.  The evidence of record shows the applicant was awarded the Army Good Conduct Medal but it is not listed on his DD Form 214.

3.  In view of the foregoing, it would be in the interest of justice 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 awarding the applicant the Combat Infantryman Badge and by adding the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Army Good Conduct Medal to his DD Form 214.   

BOARD VOTE:  

__fne___  __tap___  __mw____  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

			Fred N. Eichorn
		______________________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999017185	
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RECON		
DATE BOARDED	19990929YYYMMDD	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE		
DATE OF DISCHARGE		
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY		
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	(GRANT)	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	107.0111	
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