DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
BOARD FOR CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS
Application for the Correction of
the Coast Guard Record of:
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FINAL DECISION
BCMR Docket No. 2009-195
SUMMARY OF THE RECORD
The applicant asked the Board to award him a selective reenlistment bonus (SRB). He
alleged that he was not counseled about his eligibility for an SRB on his 6th and 10th active duty
anniversaries, which were September 28, 2002, and September 28, 2006.
The Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Coast Guard admitted that the applicant was
apparently not counseled about his SRB eligibility on his 6th or 10th anniversary but recom-
mended that the Board deny relief because the requested corrections would not be in his financial
interest. The JAG explained that members may only receive one SRB per zone, and the appli-
cant’s record shows that he has already received a Zone B SRB for a 6-year extension contract he
signed on April 10, 2003, which went into effect on September 27, 2003. Moreover, the JAG
stated that the $25,822.80 Zone B SRB that the applicant received for this extension contract—
calculated at pay grade MK2/E-5 with a multiple of 2—is greater than the sum of the Zone A and
Zone B SRBs he would have received by reenlisting on his 6th and 10th anniversaries. The JAG
noted that on his 6th anniversary, the applicant was in pay grade MK3/E-4 and had previously
obligated service through September 26, 2003, which would reduce his Zone A SRB, and on his
10th anniversary, the authorized Zone B SRB multiple for MK2s was just 0.5.
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
Article 3.C.7.1. of the Personnel Manual states that “[b]onus payments will be computed
by taking the authorized SRB multiple, multiplying it by the member’s monthly basic pay and
multiplying the result by the number of months of newly obligated service and dividing this fig-
ure by 12. Shown as an equation, this would be:
“SRB multiple x monthly basic pay x months newly obligated service
12”
Under ALCOAST 329/02, which was in effect on the applicant’s 6th anniversary, he was
eligible for a Zone A SRB calculated with a multiple of 2 and the basic pay of an MK3/E-4 with
over 4 years of service. (Under Article 3.C.7.1. of the Personnel Manual, SRBs are calculated on
the member’s basic pay as of the day before the date of reenlistment. Therefore, 6th anniversary
SRBs are paid at the “over 4” basic pay rate.) He could have reenlisted for 6 years (72 months),
but because his prior contract ran through September 26, 2003, his Zone A SRB would have been
based on just 60 months of newly obligated service. The “over 4” basic pay for an E-4 in Sep-
tember 2002 was $1,680.30. Therefore, the maximum Zone A SRB the applicant could have
received on his 6th anniversary was $16,803.00 ((SRB multiple 2) x ($1,680.30 monthly basic
pay) x (60 months of newly obligated service) ÷ 12). However, if the applicant had reenlisted for
6 years on his 6th anniversary, September 28, 2002, he would not have been authorized to extend
his enlistment for 6 years on April 10, 2003. Therefore, that extension contract would be voided
and the Zone B SRB he received for it would be recouped.
Under ALCOAST 283/06, which was in effect on the applicant’s 10th anniversary, he was
eligible for a Zone B SRB calculated with a multiple of 0.5 and the monthly basic pay of an
MK2/E-5 with over 8 years of service. He could have reenlisted for 6 years (72 months), but
because his 6th anniversary contract would run through September 27, 2008, his Zone B SRB
would have been based on just 48 months of newly obligated service. The “over 8” basic pay for
an E-5 in September 2006 was $2,402.10. Therefore, the maximum Zone B SRB the applicant
could have received on his 10th anniversary was $4,804.20 ((SRB multiple 0.5) x ($2,402.10
monthly basic pay) x (48 months of newly obligated service) ÷ 12). Under Article 3.C.4. of the
Personnel Manual, members may only receive one bonus per zone. Therefore, the applicant
could not receive this Zone B SRB on his 10th anniversary without having his prior, $25,822.80
Zone B SRB recouped.
Therefore, the Board agrees with the JAG that the applicant’s request should be denied
because the $25,822.80 Zone B SRB that he has already received exceeds the total amount he
would have received had he reenlisted for SRBs on his 6th and 10th anniversaries.
ORDER
The application of MK2 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, USCG, for correction of his military
record is denied.
March 26, 2010
Date
Jeff M. Neurauter
Lynda K. Pilgrim
Kenneth Walton
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