PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:  

	BOARD DATE:            16 February 2000
	DOCKET NUMBER:    AR1999033919

	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. Edmund P. Mercanti		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. Arthur A. Omartian		Chairperson	
	Mr. Curtis L. Greenway		Member	
	Ms. Meta Waller		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 he be paid the enlistment bonus he was promised.

3.  The applicant states he is entitled to receive his bonus.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that he enlisted in the USAR for assignment to a troop program unit on 4 February 1999 with 9 years, 6 months and 20 days of prior active service.  At that time he completed the addendum for a $5,000.00 prior service enlistment bonus.

5.  The Chief, Army Reserve recommended approval of an administrative request to pay the applicant his SRIP bonus as an exception to policy.  That request was disapproved by the DCSPER based on that office’s lack of authority to approve it, with the DCSPER recommending that the applicant petition this Board.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  It is an injustice to induce a person to enlist with an enlistment incentive and not give that person the agreed upon incentive.

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 that in this case only as an exception to policy the MOS of the individual concerned, 11B, was a bonus MOS at the time of his enlistment; and

	b.  paying to him his $5,000.00 bonus in accordance with the terms of his bonus addendum.

BOARD VOTE:  

_aao____  _clg ____  __mw___  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		_Arthur A. Omartian__________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999033919	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	20000216	
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.	128.04	
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