PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:     

	BOARD DATE:           25 January 2001                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:  AR2000044267

	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. June Hajjar		Chairperson	
	Ms. Karen A. Heinz		Member	
	Mr. Lester Echols		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 his term of enlistment be corrected from 8 years to 6 years.

3.  The applicant states that when he enlisted in the Delayed Entry Program (DEP) from the Army National Guard (ARNG), he was supposed to have enlisted for 6 years.  However, his enlistment contract incorrectly has 8 years entered, which makes the expiration of his term of service (ETS) 5 August 2005 instead of his correct ETS date of 5 August 2003.

4.  The applicant’s military records supplied to the Board do not contain documents pertaining to his ARNG service.  His Regular Army records show that he enlisted in the Regular Army (not DEP) on 6 August 1997 while he was serving in the ARNG.  The DD Form 4, Enlistment/Reenlistment Document, he signed shows he was enlisting in the Regular Army for 8 years.  However, all of the other documents in his enlistment packet show that he was enlisting for 6 years.

5.  In the processing of this case an advisory opinion was obtained from the Total Army Personnel Command (PRESCOM).  The PERSCOM recommended that the applicant’s DD Form 4 be corrected to show that he enlisted for 6 years.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  An obvious error was made when 8 years was entered on the applicant’s DD Form 4 as his term of enlistment.  This error has been confirmed by the PERSCOM.

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: 

	a.  showing the term of service in item 8 of the DD Form 4 of the individual concerned as 6 years; and

	b.  correcting all Department of the Army records to show that his ETS is now 5 August 2003.

BOARD VOTE:  

___jh_ __  ____kah_  ___le ___  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		__________June Hajjar________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR2000044267	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	20010125	
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.		
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