| Mr. Carl W. S. Chun | Director | |
| Ms. Antoinette Farley | Analyst |
| Ms. Irene N. Wheelwright | Chairperson | |
| Mr. Thomas Lanyi | Member | |
| Mr. Jose A. Martinez | Member |
2. The applicant requests reconsideration of his previous application to correct his military records to show award of the Purple Heart.
3. The applicant submits a copy of a Purple Heart Certificate, dated 21 October 1969. He also submits a 11 December 1968 letter from Headquarters, US Army Training Center Engineer and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, which states that the command was forwarding the Purple Heart medal to his home of record.
4. The Memorandum of Consideration (MOC) of the Board’s 16 August
2001 review of the case (AR2001054760) is incorporated herein by reference as if wholly set forth.
5. The applicant’s submission is new evidence that requires Board consideration.
6. The Vietnam Casualty Roster shows the applicant as a battle casualty
on 26 May 1968.
7. Army Regulation 600-8-22 provides, in pertinent part, that the Purple Heart is awarded for a wound sustained as a result of hostile action. Substantiating evidence must be provided to verify that the wound was the result of hostile action, the wound must have required treatment, and the medical treatment must have been made a matter of official record.
CONCLUSIONS:
1. The applicant was awarded the Purple Heart and his status as a battle casualty is confirmed by the Vietnam Casualty Roster of 1968.
2. Therefore, in view of the foregoing findings and conclusions, correcting the applicant’s records as recommended below would rectify an injustice.
RECOMMENDATION:
That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by showing that the individual concerned was awarded the Purple Heart.
BOARD VOTE:
_INW___ __JAM___ ___TL___ GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION
________ ________ ________ GRANT FORMAL HEARING
________ ________ ________ DENY APPLICATION
_ Irene N. Wheelwright_________________
CHAIRPERSON
INDEX
| CASE ID | AR2001063100 |
| SUFFIX | |
| RECON | |
| DATE BOARDED | 2001.12.18 |
| TYPE OF DISCHARGE | |
| DATE OF DISCHARGE | |
| DISCHARGE AUTHORITY | |
| DISCHARGE REASON | |
| BOARD DECISION | Grant |
| REVIEW AUTHORITY | |
| ISSUES 1. | A107.51 |
| 2. | |
| 3. | |
| 4. | |
| 5. | |
| 6. |
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