2.  The applicant requests that the effective date of his promotion to pay grade E-6 be corrected to 13 October 1993.

3.  The applicant’s military records show that while he was assigned to a USAR unit in pay grade E-5, on 13 October 1993 the 88th Army Reserve Command (ARCOM), Fort Snelling, Minnesota, sent a memorandum to its subordinate command stating that the applicant was selected for promotion to pay grade E-6 and directed that command to publish the promotion order.  In compliance with that directive, on 17 May 1994 orders were published promoting the applicant to pay grade E-6.  Those orders specified that both the effective date and the date of rank of that promotion would be 14 October 1993.

4. Army Regulation 140-158, paragraph 1-9, which contains the guidelines for correcting the effective date of a promotion, specifies that the effective date of a promotion/advancement will be the date of the order/personnel action or a future date.  In those cases where a soldier is entitled to an effective date of promotion/advancement before the date of the order/personnel action, he or she is required to petition this Board for authority to correct the effective date of the promotion or advancement.

5.  In the processing of this case an advisory opinion was obtained from the Chief, Army Reserve (CAR).  The CAR stated that an injustice exists in the applicant’s promotion which was caused by the inordinate delay in publishing his promotion order.  The CAR recommended approval of the applicant’s request.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant should have been promoted to pay grade E-6 immediately upon receipt of the 88th ARCOM’s directive.  Under ideal circumstances his promotion order would have been published the day of the directive, 13 October 1993.  Therefore, that date should be the effective date of his promotion.

2.  Due to undisclosed reasons, the publication of orders promoting the applicant was delayed for more than 7 months.

3.  Although the order promoting the applicant specified that his date of rank would be the day after the 88th ARCOM ordered his promotion, the effective date of that promotion was necessarily the date the promotion order was published.

4.  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 promoted to pay grade E-6 effective 13 October 1993 with a same date of rank and with entitlement to all appropriate pay and allowances from that date.

BOARD VOTE:  

                       GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

                       GRANT FORMAL HEARING

                       DENY APPLICATION




		                           
		        CHAIRPERSON