PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:  

	BOARD DATE:           20 March 2001                   
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR2000049856

	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	
	Mrs. Nancy Amos		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. Fred N. Eichorn		Chairperson	
	Mr. Raymond J. Wagner		Member	
	Mr. William D. Powers		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 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD Form 214, be corrected to show he was awarded the Army Achievement Medal and that he served in Kosovo.

3.  The applicant makes no additional statement.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he enlisted in the Regular Army on 30 January 1998.  He was awarded the Army Achievement Medal on Permanent Orders 50-10, Headquarters, 3d Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, NC dated 19 February 1999.  On or about 25 August 1999, while assigned to Fort Bragg, NC, he was sent on temporary duty for approximately    31 days to Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Germany.  He was discharged on 20 November 1999 by reason of physical disability.

5.  The applicant’s DD Form 214, item 12f shows that he did not serve overseas. Item 13 does not list the Army Achievement Medal.

6.  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 the total amount of foreign service completed during the period covered in item 12c will be entered in item 12f.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The evidence of record shows that the applicant was awarded the Army Achievement Medal.  

2.  There are no regulatory provisions for specifying the place of foreign service on the DD Form 214; however, all foreign service should be entered in item 12f.  The evidence of record shows the applicant served 1 month and 1 day of foreign service but this information is not entered in item 12f.

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

RECOMMENDATION:

1.  That the applicant’s DD Form 214, item 12f be amended to read 1 month and 1 day and item 13 be amended to add the Army Achievement Medal.

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

BOARD VOTE:  

__fne___  __rjw___  __wdp___  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

			Fred N. Eichorn
		______________________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR2000049856	
SUFFIX		
RECON		
DATE BOARDED	20010320	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE		
DATE OF DISCHARGE		
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY		
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	(GRANT)	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	100.00	
2.	110.04	
3.		
4.		
5.		
6.