DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
BOARD FOR CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS
Application for the Correction of
the Coast Guard Record of:
FINAL DECISION
BCMR Docket No. 2011-010
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SUMMARY OF THE RECORD
The applicant asked the Board to correct his record to show that his sea duty and sea pay
continued from July 21, 2010, to August 3, 2010. He alleged that during this period, his sea pay was
stopped because on July 21, 2010, someone made an erroneous entry in the Direct Access database
indicating that he had been transferred from the CGC BUCKTHORN to a shore unit. Although his
command reversed the error on August 3, 2010, his record continues to show a break in sea service. The
applicant submitted print-outs from Direct Access showing that he was transferred from his cutter to a
shore unit on July 22, 2010, and transferred back to his cutter on August 3, 2010, and that, because of
those transfers, his sea pay was temporarily stopped and $292.50 was deducted from his pay.
The Coast Guard recommended that the Board grant relief because the Executive Petty Officer of
the cutter has confirmed that the applicant “was subject to an erroneous reassignment from his cutter billet
to a shore based billet and then back to his cutter billet.”
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
The applicant has proved by a preponderance of the evidence that as a result of an administrative
error, his record erroneously reflects that he was assigned to a shore unit from July 21 to August 3, 2010,
when in fact he remained assigned to the BUCKTHORN, and that as a result of this error, he sea pay was
erroneously stopped and deducted from his pay. Therefore, relief should be granted.
ORDER
The military record of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, USCG, shall be corrected to show that he
remained assigned to the CGC BUCKTHORN throughout July and August 2010 and that he was entitled
to credit for sea service and sea pay for that entire period. The Coast Guard shall pay him any amount
due as a result of these corrections.
June 23, 2011
Date
Philip B. Busch
Reagan N. Clyne
Rebecca D. Orban
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