PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:      

	BOARD DATE:           16 November 2000                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999034073

	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. Kenneth H. Aucock		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. Walter T. Morrison		Chairperson	
	Mr. James E. Anderholm 		Member	
	Ms. Martha E. Schuler  		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 her DD Form 214 be corrected to show that she was awarded the Overseas Service Ribbon (OSR) and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM).

3.  The applicant states that she served overseas in Germany from November 1995 through 1998 and participated in Operation Joint Guard and Operation Joint Endeavor from August 1996 through April 1997.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that she was assigned from Fort McClellan, Alabama to the 64th Adjutant General Detachment in Germany with a reporting date of 13 November 1995.  On 6 November 1995 she was assigned by that detachment to the 529th Military Police Company in Heidelberg, Germany. On 9 August 1996 the 529th was deployed in support of Operation Joint Endeavor/Determined Effort and assigned to the 95th Military Police Battalion Forward in Tazar/Kaposvar, Hungary. 

5.  The applicant was released from active duty on 8 October 1998 at Heidelberg because of parenthood.  She had 3 years, 4 months, and 21 days of service.  Her DD Form 214 also shows 2 years, 11 months, and 4 days of foreign service. 

6.  Army Regulation 600-8-25 provides for award of the Overseas Service Ribbon to members of the Army for successful completion of overseas tours.

7.  The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal is awarded to persons for service in specific areas after 1 July 1958, meeting certain qualifications, one of which is to be engaged in actual combat, or duty which is equally as hazardous as combat, during an operation with armed opposition.  MILPER message 99-100 provided for award of the AFEM for Operation Joint Endeavor (OJE) and Operation Joint Guard (OJG) and states that the AFEM is limited to only those participants in or those providing direct support to OJE and OJG who were deployed in the countries of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, aboard United States naval vessels operating in the Adriatic Sea, and their respective air spaces.  

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant was deployed with her unit in support of Operation Joint Endeavor; however, there is no evidence and she did not provide any, to show that she was deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina or Croatia.  She is not entitled to award of the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.   

2.  The applicant is entitled to award of the Overseas Service Ribbon. 

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

RECOMMENDATION:

1.  That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by showing that the individual concerned was awarded the Overseas Service Ribbon.

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

BOARD VOTE:  

___jea___  ___mes_  ___wtm__  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		______________________
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999034073	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	20001116	
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.  118	107.00	
2.   125		
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