IN THE CASE OF:
BOARD DATE: 8 April 2010
DOCKET NUMBER: AR20090014659
THE BOARD CONSIDERED THE FOLLOWING EVIDENCE:
1. Application for correction of military records (with supporting documents provided, if any).
2. Military Personnel Records and advisory opinions (if any).
THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST, STATEMENT, AND EVIDENCE:
1. The applicant requests correction of her DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) to show the additional skill identifier (ASI) of F5 (Postal Clerk) on her military occupational specialty (MOS).
2. The applicant states she earned the ASI F5 via on-the-job training (OJT). She relates that she chose to work as a postal clerk so that she could be guaranteed assignment to Germany.
3. The applicant provides numerous copies of correspondence and record documents, including several different copies of her DA Form 2A (Personnel Qualification Record-Part I).
CONSIDERATION OF EVIDENCE:
1. Title 10, U.S. Code, section 1552(b), provides that applications for correction of military records must be filed within 3 years after discovery of the alleged error or injustice. This provision of law also allows the Army Board for Correction of Military Records (ABCMR) to excuse an applicants failure to timely file within the 3-year statute of limitations if the ABCMR determines it would be in the interest of justice to do so. While it appears the applicant did not file within the time frame provided in the statute of limitations, the ABCMR has elected to conduct a substantive review of this case and, only to the extent relief, if any, is granted, has determined it is in the interest of justice to excuse the applicants failure to timely file. In all other respects, there are insufficient bases to waive the statute of limitations for timely filing.
2. The applicant, a career reserve component Soldier in the Active Guard Reserve (AGR) program, first served on active duty in the Regular Army from April 1989 to August 1992.
3. She completed advanced individual training and was awarded MOS 71L1O as an administrative specialist in July 1989 and then transferred to Germany for duty with the 139th Postal Company.
4. An Individual Soldier's Report message, dated 2 May 1990, shows the applicant was administered a skills qualification test on 19 April 1990 in MOS 71L1O as an administrative specialist with an ASI of F5, postal operations.
5. On 13 June 1991, she was advanced to pay grade E-4 in primary MOS 71L1OF5.
6. She was honorably released from active duty on 14 August 1992 by reason of convenience of the Government: FY92 Early Transition Program. She was subsequently transferred to an Army Reserve Troop Program Unit in pay grade E-4.
7. Her DD Form 214, block 11 (Primary Specialty), shows she had served
2 years and 11 months as an Administrative Specialist in MOS 71L1O.
8. Army Regulation 635-5 (Separation Documents) provides the instructions for completing the DD Form 214. The specific instruction for block 11 identifies the DA Forms 2A and 2-1 as source documents and includes the following: "
any Additional Skill Identifiers validated may be entered here or in block 14 under Military Education, if applicable
16 days or more will be counted as a month
."
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS:
1. The applicant states she earned ASI F5 via OJT. She relates that she chose to work as a postal clerk so that she could be guaranteed assignment to Germany.
2. The applicant was serving as a postal clerk with ASI F5 as early as 19 April 1990. She served in that capacity until her release from active duty on 14 August 1992, a period of 2 years, 3 months, and 24 days.
3. Therefore, the ASI of F5 and the qualifying period should be added to her DD Form 214 for the period ending 14 August 1992.
4. In view of the foregoing findings and conclusions, it would be appropriate to correct the applicants records as recommended below.
BOARD VOTE:
____x____ ____x____ ___x_____ GRANT FULL RELIEF
________ ________ ________ GRANT PARTIAL RELIEF
________ ________ ________ GRANT FORMAL HEARING
________ ________ ________ DENY APPLICATION
BOARD DETERMINATION/RECOMMENDATION:
The Board determined that the evidence presented was sufficient to warrant a recommendation for relief. As a result, the Board recommends that all Department of the Army records of the individual concerned be corrected by:
a. deleting from item 11 of her DD Form 214 for the period ending 14 August 1992 the entry "
//NOTHING FOLLOWS" and
b. adding to item 11 of her DD Form 214 the entry "71L1OF5 POSTAL CLERK 2 YRS- 4 MOS//NOTHING FOLLOWS."
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CHAIRPERSON
I certify that herein is recorded the true and complete record of the proceedings of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in this case.
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