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. 2009-241
SUMMARY OF THE RECORD
The applicant asked the Board to void a reenlistment contract that he signed on May 15, 2009, to
receive a selective reenlistment bonus (SRB). He alleged that he was erroneously counseled that he was
authorized to reenlist because he was in receipt of transfer orders to a new unit. In fact, however,
because the orders required only 1 year of obligated service and under his prior 6-year contract dated
August 2, 2005, he had already obligated service through August 1, 2011, there was no need or authority
for him to reenlist or extend his enlistment on May 15, 2009. Therefore, the Coast Guard will not pay
him the SRB and he wants the contract removed from his record.
The Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard recommended that the Board grant the
applicant’s request because the record supports his allegations.
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
Under the Personnel Manual, commanding officers may only discharge and reenlist members
within 3 months of the end of their enlistment (EOE) or their 6th or 10th active duty anniversaries or when
the members are in receipt of orders that require additional obligated service. See Personnel Manual,
Arts. 12.B.7. and 3.C.5.9. Because the applicant had already obligated service through August 1, 2011,
when he received transfer orders requiring just 1 year of obligated service in May 2009, there was no
authority in the Personnel Manual for his command to discharge and reenlist him. Accordingly, his
request should be granted.
ORDER
The military record of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, USCG, shall be corrected by removing
the reenlistment contract dated May 15, 2009, as null and void and by reinstating his August 2, 2005,
reenlistment contract with an EOE of August 1, 2011.
June 8, 2010
Date
*The third member of the Board was unavailable. However, pursuant to 33 C.F.R. § 52.11(b), two
designated members constitute a quorum of the Board.
Dorothy J. Ulmer
Julia Andrews
*
Members are placed on and advanced from the list in the order in which PSC receives the messages. This message stated in pertinent part: For members not in a retirement eligible status, or serving on an indefinite enlistment contract, the obligated service requirement for the purposes of PCS orders shall be executed within 5 days of orders issuance. PSC then ordered the applicant discharged under ALCOAST 173/10, for refusing to obligate service for PCS orders, although the...
The JAG recommended that the Board authorize payment of the SRB for the extension contract. of the Personnel Manual states that to be eligible for a Zone B SRB, the member must “[h]ave completed at least 6 but not more than 10 years active service on the date of reenlistment or the operative date of the extension.” Article 3.C.2.6. states that the operative date is “[t]he date the extension begins to run.” In addition, Article 1.G.19.
2 Obligated service refers to all periods of military service covered by signed agreements in the form of enlistment contracts, reenlistment contracts and/or agreements to extend enlistment between Coast Guard members and the U.S. Coast Guard where members agree to serve for designated periods of time. When he received transfer orders in June 2003, the applicant should have been required to obligate sufficient service to complete a full tour of duty (four years) before accepting the...
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, COMDT- INST M1000.6A, PERSONNEL MANUAL, Art. Therefore, the preponderance of the 5 UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, COMDTINST M1000.6A, PERSONNEL MANUAL, Art. The Coast Guard shall correct her record to show that she canceled her four-month extension contract dated November 21, 2006, by reenlisting for a Zone A SRB on July 15, 2009, for a term of 4, 5, or 6 years, at her discretion.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BOARD FOR CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS Application for the Correction of the Coast Guard Record of: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. This final decision, dated April 21, 2005, is signed by the three duly appointed APPLICANT’S REQUEST AND ALLEGATIONS The applicant asked the Board to correct his record by replacing his October 1, 2002, six-year extension contract with a reenlistment contract to receive a selective reenlistment bonus (SRB)1 in accordance with ALCOAST...
This final decision, dated December 29, 2004, is signed by the three duly APPLICANT’S REQUEST AND ALLEGATIONS The applicant asked the Board to correct his record to show that he is entitled to a Zone B selective reenlistment bonus (SRB) calculated with seventy-two months of newly obligated service.1 He alleged that he was miscounseled about his eligibility for the SRB and that if he had been properly counseled, he would have reenlisted for six years on May 13, 2003, in lieu of extending, to...
SRBs vary according to the length of each member’s active duty service, the number of months of service newly obligated by the reenlistment or extension of enlistment contract, and the need of the Coast Guard for personnel with the member’s particular skills, which is reflected in the “multiple” of the SRB authorized for the member’s skill/rating, which is published in an ALCOAST. He was counseled that pursuant to ALCOAST 182/03, he would receive a Zone A SRB calculated with 56 months of...
3 To be eligible for a Zone B SRB, a member must have completed “at least 6 years but not more than 10 years of active service on the date of reenlistment or operative date of the extension.” Coast Guard Personnel Manual, Article 3.C.4.b.3. He stated that upon receiving transfer orders to the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command (ISC) and the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in Seattle, he was counseled by a Coast Guard yeoman1 that he was eligible to reenlist or extend for up to six years for a...
of the Coast Guard Personnel Manual states that to receive a Zone A SRB, the member cannot have previously received a Zone A SRB. The counseling was erroneous because the applicant received a Zone A SRB for his September 22, 2001, reenlistment, and pursuant to Article 3.C.4.a.6. Therefore, the Board finds that if the applicant had received proper SRB counseling in accordance with Article 3.C.3., he would have (a) extended his enlistment for 23 months instead of reenlisting in July 2003 and...
of the Coast Guard Training and Education Manual, before reporting to “A” school on January 22, 2000, she needed to obligate sufficient service — 19 more months — to complete the 14 weeks of school and have 26 months remaining on her enlistment upon completion of the school.3 Therefore, the applicant is entitled to have the term of her January 20, 2000, extension contract corrected to 19 months. The Board finds that if the applicant had been properly counseled regarding her SRB eligibility,...