PROCEEDINGS

   	IN THE CASE OF:  	

	BOARD DATE:           14 April 1999
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999024851
                                              AC98-07803

	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. Wyman Bailey		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. Karen L. Wolff		Chairperson	
	Mr. Thomas B. Redfern, III		Member	
	Mr. Arthur A. Omartian		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 her military identification card (ID Card) be changed to show her pay grade/title as E-8/first sergeant (1SG).

3.  The applicant states, in effect, that when she went to the ID Card issue center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, she was informed that since her separation document (DD Form 214) showed her pay grade as E8/MSG and not E8 with a title of 1SG that officials had to put master sergeant (MSG) on her ID Card. 

responsibilities of the first sergeant (1SG) while holding the pay grade of E-7 with the 257th Medical Detachment, Fort Bragg, North Carolina from 16 August 1989 to the date of her promotion to pay grade E-8 on 1 September 1989.  She continued to serve in the capacity as the unit 1SG until 1 September 1991 a period of 1 year and 11 months.    

5.  She retired on 31 May 1995 with over 23 years of service and her retirement orders show she retired as a 1SG.

6.   Army Regulation 635-200, Enlisted Personnel, provides in pertinent part, that noncommissioned officers holding the pay grade of E-8 (no minimum time period is specified) at retirement whose records show successful service as 1SG will be placed on the retired list in the grade title “first sergeant”. 

CONCLUSIONS:

1.   The applicant served in the capacity of a 1SG in pay grade E-7 and E-8 while assigned to the 257th Medical Detachment, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from the period 16 August 1989 to 1 September 1991. 

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

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by showing that at the individual concerned retired from the Army she held the title of first sergeant.

BOARD VOTE:  

_KLM   _TBR___  _AAO_  ____  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

____  ____  ____  ____  ____  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

____  ____  ____  ____  ____  DENY APPLICATION

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		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AC98-07803/AR1999024851	
SUFFIX		
RECON		
DATE BOARDED	19990414	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE		
DATE OF DISCHARGE		
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	 	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	GRANT	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	129	
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