IN THE CASE OF:
BOARD DATE: 15 March 2012
DOCKET NUMBER: AR20110018141
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, in effect, correction of his DD Form 214 (Armed Forces of the United States Report of Transfer or Discharge) to show his foreign service in Vietnam.
2. The applicant states for disciplinary reasons his commander sent him to Vietnam several times to assist others with communications. The longest period was for 4 to 5 Weeks.
3. The applicant provides no additional evidence.
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's records show he enlisted in the Regular Army on 5 December 1960 and he held military occupational specialty 270.00 (Fixed Station Radio Attendant).
3. He served in Japan from 10 June 1961 to 27 May 1963 while assigned to the U.S. Army Signal Receiver Company.
4. He was honorably released from active duty on 4 December 1963 and he was transferred to the U.S. Army Reserve. He completed 3 years of creditable active service of which 2 years, 1 month, and 18 days [sic] was foreign service in Japan.
5. There are no orders in his records that show he was ever assigned/attached to a unit in Vietnam or that he served there while in a temporary duty (TDY) status.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS:
Notwithstanding the applicant's sincerity, the evidence of record does not show he ever served in Vietnam. His records do not contain orders to show he was ever assigned, attached, or TDY to Vietnam. Therefore, he is not entitled to the requested relief.
BOARD VOTE:
________ ________ ________ GRANT FULL RELIEF
________ ________ ________ GRANT PARTIAL RELIEF
________ ________ ________ GRANT FORMAL HEARING
___X____ ___X ___ ___X____ DENY APPLICATION
BOARD DETERMINATION/RECOMMENDATION:
The evidence presented does not demonstrate the existence of a probable error or injustice. Therefore, the Board determined that the overall merits of this case
are insufficient as a basis for correction of the records of the individual concerned.
_______ _ X______ ___
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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