2.  The applicant requests correction of his military records by amending his 6 June 1995 reenlistment contract to show that he reenlisted with entitlement to a selective reenlistment bonus (SRB) of 1A.

3.  The applicant states that at the time of his reenlistment on 6 June 1995, he was informed that he was not entitled to receive an SRB.  However, he had been identified by the Department on 27 March 1995 and notified that he was being reclassified from military occupational specialty (MOS) 36L to MOS 74G.  He goes on to state that he reenlisted in MOS 36L and was subsequently reclassified to MOS 74G.  He further states that he has  since learned that his new MOS was authorized an SRB at the time he reenlisted and believes that since he had already been identified as being reclassified to the new MOS, he should have been authorized the SRB that was being offered for the new MOS at that time.

4.  After serving 4 years and 11 months of total active service, the applicant reenlisted on 6 June 1995 in MOS 36L, in the pay grade of E-5 for a period of 4 years.  His contract showed “no bonus entitlement.”

5.  The Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM), in a comment to this Board, advised that the applicant had been identified for reclassification/conversion on 27 March 1995 and that an SRB-1A was in effect for MOS 74G, his new projected MOS, at the time he reenlisted.  The PERSCOM opined that the applicant should have received an SRB-1A for his 6 June 1995 reenlistment based on his having been identified for an MOS conversion.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant was reenlisted without a bonus entitlement that has resulted in an injustice to him in that a bonus was available in the MOS that he had been identified to be reclassified to and he was qualified to receive it.

2.  Accordingly, it would be equitable and just to correct the applicant’s records to show that he was authorized to receive the SRB-1A in MOS 74G that was in effect at the time he reenlisted on 6 June 1995. 

3.  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 amending the 6 June 1995 reenlistment contract of the individual concerned to show that he was entitled to receive an SRB-1A in MOS 74G.

BOARD VOTE:  

                       GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

                       GRANT FORMAL HEARING

                       DENY APPLICATION




		                           
		        CHAIRPERSON