2.  The applicant requests correction of his military records by amending his 29 December 1995 reenlistment contract to show that he reenlisted with entitlement to a selective reenlistment bonus (SRB) of 2B.

3.  The applicant states that at the time of his reenlistment on 29 December 1995, he was informed that he was not entitled to receive an SRB because he was not assigned to an authorized linguist “L” position.  However, he had been alerted that he was to attend the Serbo-Croatian Refresher course and was subsequently assigned to a linguist position in Bosnia, therefore he should have received the SRB for his military occupational specialty (MOS) of 97B.

4.  The applicant’s military records indicate that the applicant was identified on 11 December 1995 as a possible candidate to attend an 8-week Serbo-Croatian refresher training course.  On 27 December 1995 course assignment instructions were dispatched by the Department sending the applicant to the course beginning 16 January 1996.

5.  His records show that after serving 7 years, 7 months, and 24 days of total active service, the applicant, while serving at Fort Meade, Maryland, reenlisted on 29 December 1995 in MOS 97B, in the pay grade of E-5 for a period of 5 years.  His contract showed “no bonus entitlement.”

6.  On 1 February 1996 the Department dispatched instructions reassigning the applicant to Bosnia upon completion of his refresher training.

7.  The Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM), in a comment to this Board, advised that an SRB-2B was in effect for MOS 97B with a language skill qualification identifier “L”, that the applicant was eligible to receive the SRB at the time of his reenlistment, and that his request should be approved.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant was reenlisted without a bonus entitlement that has resulted in an injustice to him in that a bonus was available 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-2B that was in effect at the time he reenlisted on 29 December 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 29 December 1995 reenlistment contract of the individual concerned to show that he was entitled to receive an SRB-2B in MOS 97B2L.

BOARD VOTE:  

                       GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

                       GRANT FORMAL HEARING

                       DENY APPLICATION




		                           
		        CHAIRPERSON