PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:       

	BOARD DATE:            13 July 2000                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:    AR2000043928

	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. Carl W. S. Chun		Director	
	Mr Edmund P. Mercanti		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Ms. Jennifer L. Prater		Chairperson	
	Mr. Melvin H. Meyer		Member	
	Mr. James E. Anderholm		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 it be shown that he enlisted in the Army Reserve (USAR) on 17 February 2000 for assignment to the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) and that he was attached to the 5778th Corps Support Command (COSCOM), a Reinforcement Training Unit (RTU), the following day.

3.  The applicant states that an error was made by his recruiter, that his enlistment was supposed to be in the USAR, not the Regular Army.

4.  In support of his application he submits a memorandum from the operations officer from the recruiting battalion with responsibility for the recruiting station in which he was enlisted.  In that memorandum it is stated that the applicant’s recruiter mistakenly enlisted him in the Regular Army, that he was supposed to have been enlisted in the USAR.  The applicant also submits a memorandum from the commander of the RTU to which the applicant has requested to be attached.  In that memorandum the commander stated that he had administered the oath of enlistment to the applicant since the applicant was enlisting so he could be attached to the RTU from the IRR.  The commander adds that the applicant is pending a USAR commissioning board.

5.  The applicant’s military records show that on 17 February 2000 he executed a DD Form 4 which was prepared to show that he enlisted into the Regular Army in pay grade E-5 for 3 years.  At that time he also executed a DA Form 4688/1, Certificate and Acknowledgement of Service Requirements for Individuals Enlisting or Reenlisting in the Individual Ready Reserve.  On 18 February 2000 the applicant and the commander of the RTU signed a DA Form 4651-R, Request for Reserve Component Assignment or Attachment, requesting that the applicant be reattached from the IRR to the 5778th COSCOM.

6.  Army Regulation 601-210, enlistment option 9-54, Army IRR (PS) direct enlistment option, provides for prior service veterans to enlist directly for the IRR.  When such an enlistment is effected, the applicant must enlist in the USAR and the remarks section of the DD Form 4 will include the remark “IRR Prior Svc Enl (option 9-54, AR 601-210), PPN 95.”

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  It is evident that an error was made in the preparation of the applicant’s DD Form 4, that he was enlisting in the USAR, not the Regular Army.

2.  To correct this error the Board must authorize a corrected copy of the applicant’s DD Form 4 dated 17 February 2000.  That corrected copy will show that he enlisted in the USAR instead of the Army, and that the word “None” in Part b of the DD Form 4, Remarks, be replaced with “IRR Prior Svc Enl (option 
9-54, AR 601-210), PPN 95.”  The Board must also correct the applicant’s records to show that he was reattached from the IRR to the 5778th COSCOM on 18 February 2000.

3.  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:

	a.  correcting the DD Form 4 of  the individual concerned dated 17 February 2000 by showing that he enlisted in the USAR instead of the Army, and that the word “None” in Part b of the DD Form 4, Remarks, be replaced with “IRR Prior Svc Enl (option 9-54, AR 601-210), PPN 95.”  This DD Form 4 will have the remark “Corrected copy by authority of the ABCMR” clearly marked on the top of the form.

	b.  showing that he was further attached to the 5778th COSCOM effective 18 February 2000.

BOARD VOTE:  

___jlp___  ___mhm_  ___jea___  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		_________Jennifer L. Prater______
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR2000043928	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	20000713	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	(HD, GD, UOTHC, UD, BCD, DD, UNCHAR)	
DATE OF DISCHARGE	YYYYMMDD	
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	AR . . . . .  	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	GRANT	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	135.03	
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