PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:  

	BOARD DATE:           27 October 1999                   
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999020401

	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:

	Ms. Margaret K. Patterson		Chairperson	
	Mr. George D. Paxson		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 that his DD Form 214 be corrected by adding Additional Skill Identifier (ASI) B4 to item 11; by adding the Army Commendation Medal to item 13, and by adding the sniper, airborne, pre-ranger, ranger indoctrination program, jungle warfare and scout swimmer courses to item 14.

3.  The applicant states that his DD Form 214 does not include the above entries. Supporting evidence is as listed on the DD Form 149.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he enlisted in the Regular Army on 25 March 1994.  He completed basic training and advanced individual training (AIT) and was awarded military occupational specialty (MOS) 11B (Infantryman). He attended the basic airborne course and was awarded Special Qualification Identifier (SQI) P.  He was awarded ASI B4 (sniper) in June 1996 after completing the sniper course.  He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal on 1 April 1998 and separated on 26 April 1998.  His DD Form 214, item 11 lists his primary specialty as 11B10 00; item 13 does not include the Army Commendation Medal; and item 14 lists only the Infantryman course.

5.  Army Regulation 635-5 prescribes the separation documents prepared for soldiers upon retirement, discharge, or release from active military service or control of the Army.  It establishes standardized policy for the preparation of the DD Form 214.  In pertinent part, it states that item 14 will list in-service training courses.  The information is to assist the member after separation in job placement and counseling; therefore, training courses for combat skills will not be listed.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The evidence of record shows the applicant was awarded the Army Commendation Medal and that he held MOS 11B1PB4 at the time of his separation.

2.  All the training courses the applicant requests to be listed on his DD Form 214 are combat-skill courses.  Because of the intended purpose of item 14, courses of that type are not authorized for placement on the DD Form 214.  (Infantryman would also not normally be listed but presumably was in this case because that was his AIT course.)

3.  In view of the foregoing, it would be in the interest of justice to correct the applicant’s records as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

1.  That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by adding the Army Commendation Medal to the applicant’s DD Form 214 and by correcting his DD Form 214, item 11 to read “11B1P B4…Follows.”

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

BOARD VOTE:  

__mkp___  __gdp___  __kan___  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		Margaret K. Patterson
		______________________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999020401	
SUFFIX		
RECON		
DATE BOARDED	19991027	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE		
DATE OF DISCHARGE		
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY		
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	(GRANT)	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	110.04	
2.	100.07	
3.	100.00	
4.		
5.		
6.