PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:       

	BOARD DATE:            12 April 2000                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:    AR1999032004

	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. W. E. Schnupp		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. Robert G. Hinkle		Chairperson	
	Ms. Barbara J. Ellis		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 that his military occupational specialty (MOS) be changed from clerk-typist to light weapons infantryman.

3.  The applicant states that his DD Form 214, Report of Transfer or Discharge, shows his MOS as clerk-typist.  He contends that he never was a clerk-typist, he always served as an infantryman. 

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he enlisted in the Regular Army for 4 years on 21 February 1963, received basic and advanced infantry training, served in Vietnam from January 1966 to December 1966 as a rifleman with the 5th Infantry Division and was discharged under honorable conditions on             14 December 1967 in the grade of private.

5.  His awards include the National Defense Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantryman Badge.

6.  The applicant’s Enlisted Qualification Record shows his primary MOS as Clerk-typist and his secondary MOS as light weapons infantryman; however, the record of assignments section shows that all of his duty assignments were in infantry and infantry related fields.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant’s records contain no evidence to show that he was ever assigned as a clerk-typist.  In fact, all of the MOSs listed in his record indicate that he served in infantry and/or infantry related MOSs.

2.  Based on the available evidence, it appears that the entry on his DD Form 214 showing his MOS as a clerk-typist is incorrect.  It would therefore, be appropriate to change the MOS in block 23a of his DD Form 214 to show he was a light weapons infantryman, MOS - 11B20.

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 showing that the individual concerned was an 11B20, light weapons infantryman.

BOARD VOTE:  

__rgh ___  __bje ___  ___jps __  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		_________Robert G. Hinkle________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999032004	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	20000412	
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.  100.05		
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