Take a look. The key doc to summarize everything
is likely the 1st BCMR letter which is the decision.
Something you want to work on with me?
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From: O'Brien, Michael
M [mailto:Michael.M.O'Brien@dhs.gov]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011
2:59 PM
To: Mark S. Zaid
Subject: RE: Correction to Record
of Military Service (DD Form 214)
Mark,
I’ve attached all the documentation
I have. The only thing missing is my original request to the Army Review
Boards Agency. I was so positive my request would be approved I
didn’t bother to make a copy of it.
Mike
From: Mark S. Zaid [mailto:mark@markzaid.com]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011
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of Military Service (DD Form 214)
Michael, can you please send me the denial
letter? Is there any?
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From: O'Brien, Michael
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011
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To: Mark S. Zaid
Subject: RE: Correction to Record
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Thanks
From: Mark S. Zaid
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011
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Thanks for your e-mail Mike, and for your
service to our country. Let me check on this and get back to you shortly.
Mark
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From: O'Brien, Michael
M [mailto:Michael.M.O'Brien@dhs.gov]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011
2:20 PM
To: Mark@markzaid.com
Subject: Correction to Record of
Military Service (DD Form 214)
Mark,
I was referred to you by Drew Early of the firm Lynch and
Shewmaker. I believe you know Steve Shewmaker.
I graduated from West Point
in 1977 and was discharged from active duty in 1982. However, at the time
I left the service, the Army had a policy of not showing the four years a cadet
spent at the military academy on his DD Form 214. This was primarily
because those years do not count toward military retirement. In 2000, the
Army issued Regulation 635-5, which stipulated wording to be added to the DD
Form 214 showing the four years at West Point
as “active duty,” but not counting toward military retirement.
Thinking this regulation solved the problem, I applied to the Army Review
Boards Agency and was astounded when they refused my request. I wrote to
my Congressman, Jim Moran, whose staff did nothing. I then went to
Senator Jim Webb’s office, and was told they wouldn’t be able to
help me.
The reason this issue is sensitive is because I am a Federal
employee. I was recently denied 5-point veterans status on a job
application because my DD Form 214 starts on June 8, 1977 (when I graduated
from West Point), and not July 2, 1973 (when I entered West
Point and began active duty). Because the DD Form 214
doesn’t begin until June 8, 1977, it does not show me as being on active
duty prior to October 14, 1976, the end of the Vietnam era. As a result, I
was not able to compete against other veterans for several GS-15 vacancies to
which I had applied, causing me hardship and loss of income.
I was told you were the go-to lawyer for an issue like
this. Can you help me? Thanks
Mike