2.  The applicant requests that he be promoted to Staff Sergeant, pay grade E-6, effective and with a date of rank of 1 May 1995.  

3.  The applicant states that he should have made the cutoff score for promotion in his specialty in May 1995.  He submitted documents to increase his total promotion points to his personnel center (PAC) in January 1995, which was lost, and resubmitted these documents again in February, which were not processed until March 1995.  He states that he would have been promoted in May had the personnel clerk turned in the documents to the personnel support unit on time.

4.  The applicant has provided statements from his battalion commander, battalion adjutant, company commander, executive officer, platoon leader, and first sergeant, all who attest that the applicant first submitted documents to increase his promotion points in January 1995, which were lost; and that he submitted another packet in February which was not immediately processed.  With the lag time of three months before promotion points become effective, the delay caused the applicant to miss the cutoff score for promotion in his specialty in May 1995.

5.  The clerk who initially received the documents from the applicant submitted a statement in which he freely admits that he misplaced these documents, and that when another clerk took over his job, they told the applicant that his packet had been lost.  The clerk stated that if the documents had been submitted on time the applicant would have been promoted in May. 

6.  The applicant submitted a request for exception to policy on 25 April 1995, requesting that he be promoted on 
1 May 1995 because of the circumstances concerning his documents for reevaluation of his promotion points.  That request was supported by officials in his chain of command. On 3 November 1995 an official of the Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) Promotions Branch acknowledged the negligence involved in the processing of the applicant’s documents for promotion reevaluation, but disapproved his request, citing the procedures contained in the regulation governing enlisted promotions, i.e., the personnel support unit will recompute the administrative points with a reevaluation date the month and year the request for reevaluation is received; promotion points will become effective on the first day of the third month following the month of reevaluation.    

7.  The applicant’s worksheet, dated February 1995, with the date edited to read March 1995, and certified by an official in the personnel support unit on 26 April 1995, shows his total promotion points as 701.  

8.  The promotion point cutoff score for May 1995 in the applicant’s specialty was 700.  

9.  Army Regulation 600-8-19 prescribes enlisted promotion policies and procedures.  Paragraph 3-20 of that regulation states, in effect, that soldiers who believe they have increased their latest promotion score by 35 points or more can request administrative reevaluation at any time.  The personnel support unit will recompute the administrative points with a reevaluation date the month and year the request for reevaluation is received in the personnel support unit.  Promotion scores achieved through the reevaluation process are effective for promotion on the first day of the third month following reevaluation.   

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant’s documents for reevaluation of his promotion points were delayed through no fault of his own.  Those documents should have been processed and recomputed at the personnel support unit in January 1995, when first submitted. 

2.  The applicant’s recomputed promotion score should have been effective on 1 April 1995, the first day of the third month following reevaluation.   

3.  The applicant met the cutoff score for promotion in his specialty on 1 May 1995.  He should be promoted to pay grade E-6 with a date of rank and effective date of promotion of 
1 May 1995. 

4.  In view of the foregoing findings and conclusions, it would be appropriate to correct the applicant’s records 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 met the cutoff score for promotion to pay grade 
E-6 on 1 May 1995, that he was promoted to that grade with a date of rank and effective date of 1 May 1995, and that he receive all pay and allowances resulting from that promotion.                 
               
BOARD VOTE:  

                       GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

                       GRANT FORMAL HEARING

                       DENY APPLICATION




		                           
		        CHAIRPERSON