Court Opinion

ID: 9454364
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:44:28.257284+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:05.427496
License: Public Domain

DAVIS, Judge
(concurring):
I join in the court’s opinion but would go further and hold explicitly that the Selection Board’s action was invalid because it did not have the proper statutory “record” before it. Also, I wish to reserve expressly (the court’s opinion does so implicitly, I believe) the question whether a Correction Board proceeding can ever “cure” a defective Selection Board determination in the sense that the Secretary could decide — as a result of a Correction Board proceeding which was free from the defects of the Selection Board — that the officer had been properly “selected out.” The statute seems on its face to give this particular “selecting out” power to a Selection Board, not. the Secretary, and it may be doubted that an officer can ever be so separated except by the valid action of a Selection Board.
COLLINS, Judge, concurs in the result only.