| Mr. Carl W. S. Chun | Director | |
| Mrs. Nancy Amos | Analyst |
| Ms. Irene N. Wheelwright | Chairperson | |
| Mr. Hubert O. Fry, Jr. | Member | |
| Mr. Donald P. Hupman, Jr. | Member |
2. The applicant requests that his records be corrected to reflect his correct social security number (SSN) of 223- __-____.
3. The applicant states that he was given the wrong SSN, 224-__-____, by mistake some 30 years ago. Therefore, he was re-issued a new SSN. He provides a letter from the Social Security Administration explaining the error.
4. The applicant’s military records show that he was initially inducted into the Army in 1959, when service numbers rather than SSNs were used as a means of personnel identification. At the time of his reenlistment on 8 July 1968, his service number was still in use. The first record of use of his SSN of 224-__-____ was on a general order dated 17 September 1970. His SSN of 224-__-____ was used on all his documents from that time forward, to include his retirement orders and Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD Form 214, for the period ending 31 July 1980.
5. On 26 May 1989, the Social Security Administration provided the applicant a letter verifying that he was assigned SSN 224-__-____ in error. That number was assigned to another person with similar identifying information two years before it was assigned to the applicant. They recently discovered the error and assigned the applicant the SSN 223-__-____.
6. Army Regulation 635-5 prescribes the separation documents prepared for soldiers upon retirement, discharge, or release from active military service or control of the Army. It establishes standardized policy for the preparation of the DD Form 214. In pertinent part it states that the DD Form 214 is a synopsis of the soldier’s most recent period of continuous active duty. It provides a brief, clear-cut record of active Army service at the time of release from active duty, retirement or discharge.
CONCLUSIONS:
1. For historical purposes, the Army has an interest in maintaining the accuracy of its records. The data and information contained in those records should actually reflect the conditions and circumstances that existed at the time the records were created. This Board is normally reluctant to recommend that those records be changed.
2. However, there appears to be a material error in this case. Although the applicant served on and was released from active duty with the SSN 224-__-___, the Social Security Administration verified several years after his retirement that he was erroneously issued that SSN. Under these circumstances, it would be appropriate to correct the applicant’s records to reflect his SSN as 223-__-____
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 furnishing the applicant a Notification of Change of Service Member’s Official Records, DD Form 1343, showing his correct SSN of 223-__-____.
2. That the applicant’s retirement orders and his last DD Form 214, for the period ending 31 July 1980, be amended to show his SSN as 223-__-____.
BOARD VOTE:
__inw___ __hof___ __dph___ GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION
________ ________ ________ GRANT FORMAL HEARING
________ ________ ________ DENY APPLICATION
Irene N. Wheelwright
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CHAIRPERSON
| CASE ID | AR2001063050 |
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| DATE BOARDED | 20020115 |
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| BOARD DECISION | (GRANT) |
| REVIEW AUTHORITY | |
| ISSUES 1. | 100.09 |
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