My son has an issue with his military records and I wanted to see if anyone might be able to draw on their experience and point him in the right direction.
Let's say my son's name is John David Crow (it isn't). We adopted him at about 3 years old and had his name changed, adding our last name so "John David Crow Slocum" with "Slocum" being his last name and "David" and "Crow" being middle names. I realize now this is not optimal, but we wanted him to be able to maintain his full birth name. His entire life he has gone by "John Slocum", but the Navy has decided to change all that.
Our first indication there was any problem was when we showed up to MEPS to see him off to boot camp. When we were asked our recruit's name they told us they did not have him on the list. After some digging we realized the navy had smashed his middle and last name together without so much as a hyphen so now he is known as John David Crowslocum". It's everywhere. It's on his ID, his orders, his name tapes you get the picture.
He just recently graduated boot camp and when he reported to sub school he tried to get it fixed, but has basically been met with "If that's what the Navy says your name is, then that is your name.". Does anyone have any guidance as to how he can even start to get this addressed since ALL of his records are wrong? I'm prior service so I know 93/100ths of the battle is usually just finding the right person to ask. He is definitely a big boy now and Dad intends to let him take care of it himself, but he is a little busy to be on TexAgs, so
I appreciate any guidance at all.
Let's say my son's name is John David Crow (it isn't). We adopted him at about 3 years old and had his name changed, adding our last name so "John David Crow Slocum" with "Slocum" being his last name and "David" and "Crow" being middle names. I realize now this is not optimal, but we wanted him to be able to maintain his full birth name. His entire life he has gone by "John Slocum", but the Navy has decided to change all that.
Our first indication there was any problem was when we showed up to MEPS to see him off to boot camp. When we were asked our recruit's name they told us they did not have him on the list. After some digging we realized the navy had smashed his middle and last name together without so much as a hyphen so now he is known as John David Crowslocum". It's everywhere. It's on his ID, his orders, his name tapes you get the picture.
He just recently graduated boot camp and when he reported to sub school he tried to get it fixed, but has basically been met with "If that's what the Navy says your name is, then that is your name.". Does anyone have any guidance as to how he can even start to get this addressed since ALL of his records are wrong? I'm prior service so I know 93/100ths of the battle is usually just finding the right person to ask. He is definitely a big boy now and Dad intends to let him take care of it himself, but he is a little busy to be on TexAgs, so
I appreciate any guidance at all.