PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:         

	BOARD DATE:            9 December 1999
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999023581

	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. Joseph A. Adriance		Analyst	

The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Ms. JoAnn H. Langston		Chairperson	
	Mr. Thomas D. Howard, Jr.		Member	
	Mr. James P. Steuve		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 that a completed service school be added to his DD Form 214 (Armed Forces of the United States Report of Transfer or Discharge).   

3.  The applicant states, in effect, that his record of attendance and graduation from the Atomic Demolition (ADM) Forward Assembly Course of the Weapons Assembly Department at the U.S. Army School, Europe was erroneously left off his separation document.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he entered the Regular Army on 
11 December 1962 and remained on active duty until his honorable discharge on 13 July 1966.  

5.  The record contains a DD Form 214 which documents that the applicant completed 3 years, 7 months, and 3 days of his current enlistment and a total of 5 years, 3 months, and 13 days of active military service.  It also shows that the applicant was discharged by reason of hardship.  The DD Form 214 issued the applicant does not list the ADM Forward Assembly Course on the list of service schools he successfully completed.

6.  The applicant’s qualification record (DA Form 20) indicates, in block 
27 (Military Training), that the applicant attended the ADM Forward Assembly Course for 2 weeks in 1963.  The record also contains an academic report, dated 5 September 1963, which verifies that the applicant graduated from this course on 30 August 1963.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The evidence of record shows that the applicant successfully graduated from the Atomic Demolition Forward Assembly Course of the Weapons Assembly Department at the U.S. Army School, Europe, on 30 August 1963.

2.  The DD Form 214, issued the applicant at discharge, erroneously omitted the above mentioned course in block 28 (Service Schools or Colleges, College Training, Courses and/or Post-Graduate Courses Successfully Completed).  The Board finds, in the interest of justice, that this error should be corrected at this time. 

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

RECOMMENDATION:

That Department of the Army separation documents, DD Form 214, issued the individual concerned on 13 July 1966, be corrected by adding the following entry: Atomic Demolition Course/2 weeks/19 to 30 August 1963.

BOARD VOTE:  

___jhl ___  ___jps___  __tdh___  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		____JoAnn Langston______
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999023581	
SUFFIX		
RECON		
DATE BOARDED	1999/12/09	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	HD	
DATE OF DISCHARGE	1966/07/13	
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	AR 635-207	
DISCHARGE REASON	Hardship	
BOARD DECISION	GRANT	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.  8	100.0700	
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