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ARMY | BCMR | CY2003 | 2003085418C070212
Original file (2003085418C070212.rtf) Auto-classification: Approved
PROCEEDINGS


         IN THE CASE OF:


         BOARD DATE: 24 JULY 2003
         DOCKET NUMBER: AR2003085418


         I certify that hereinafter is recorded the true and complete record of the proceedings of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in the case of the above-named individual.

Mr. Carl W. S. Chun Director
Mr. Kenneth H. Aucock Analyst


The following members, a quorum, were present:

Mr. Arthur A. Omartian Chairperson
Mr. John P. Infante Member
Ms. Yolanda Maldonado Member

         The applicant and counsel if any, did not appear before the Board.

         The Board considered the following evidence:

         Exhibit A - Application for correction of military
records
         Exhibit B - Military Personnel Records (including
         advisory opinion, if any)

FINDINGS :

1. The applicant has exhausted or the Board has waived the requirement for exhaustion of all administrative remedies afforded by existing law or regulations.


2. The applicant requests that his DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) be corrected to show that he was released from active duty on 6 December 2002, vice 6 December 2001; and that his net active service show 1 year, 3 months, and 23 days, vice 3 months and 23 days.

3. The applicant submits with his request a memorandum requesting that the correction be made, a copy of his DD Form 214, and a copy of an order awarding him a MOS (military occupational specialty).

4. The applicant enlisted in the Army Reserve for 8 years on 13 December 2000. The applicant’s DD Form 214 shows that he entered on active duty for training on 14 August 2001 and was released from active duty on 6 December 2001 for a total of 3 months and 23 days of service during that period. That form also shows that he completed a 26-week phase I of a medical lab tech course in June 2002 and a 26-week phase II of that same course in December 2002.

5. A 5 December 2002 order published by Headquarters, Army Signal School and Fort Gordon, Georgia, shows that the applicant was awarded MOS 91K10 effective on 6 December 2002 or upon completion of training.

6. On 10 January 2003 the 145th Medical Battalion, a Reserve unit in Seagoville, Texas, forwarded documents to the Army Review Boards Agency in St. Louis, and requested that the applicant's DD Form 214 be corrected, stating that the action was a typographical problem. One of the documents forwarded was a 10 December 2002 memorandum from the Chief, Transition Point, at Fort Gordon, to the Army Reserve Personnel Command at St. Louis, requesting that the corrections be made.

7. Department of the Army Pamphlet 351-4, the U.S. Army Formal Schools Catalog, is the official source of information on formal courses of instruction offered at Army schools and training centers. That catalog lists a Medical Laboratory Specialist Course, MOS 91K, conducted at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in two phases, a resident portion and a clinical practicum. Each phase is 26 weeks. Total course length is 52 weeks.

CONCLUSIONS
:

1. The applicant's DD Form 214 should be corrected to show that he was released from active duty on 6 December 2002, vice the 6 December 2001 date shown; and that he had 1 year, 3 months, and 23 days of service during his period of active duty, vice the 3 months and 23 days shown.

2. In view of the foregoing, the applicant’s records should be corrected 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 was released from active duty on 6 December 2002, vice the 6 December 2001 date shown on his DD Form 214; and that he had 1 year, 3 months, and 23 days of net active service during that period, vice the 3 months and 23 days service shown.

BOARD VOTE:

__AAO __ __JPI ___ ___YM__ GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________ ________ ________ GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________ ________ ________ DENY APPLICATION




                  ___Arthur A. Omartian_____
                  CHAIRPERSON




INDEX

CASE ID AR2003085418
SUFFIX
RECON YYYYMMDD
DATE BOARDED 20030724
TYPE OF DISCHARGE (HD, GD, UOTHC, UD, BCD, DD, UNCHAR)
DATE OF DISCHARGE YYYYMMDD
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY AR . . . . .
DISCHARGE REASON
BOARD DECISION GRANT
REVIEW AUTHORITY
ISSUES 1. 100.00
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