EVIDENCE OF RECORD: The former service member entered active duty on 19 May 1949, at age 17, having left school in the tenth grade. He was convicted by summary court-martial on 28 July 1949 of a 10-day AWOL and a 2-day AWOL and on 20 September 1949 of possession of an unauthorized pass and breaking restriction. Finally, on 14 December 1949, in a trial by general court-martial, he was convicted of willful disobedience and a 16-day AWOL. He was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures and confinement for 2 years. The convening authority reduced the confinement period to 1 year and approved the sentence. The record of trial was found legally sufficient on review in the office of The Judge Advocate General. The dishonorable discharge was executed on 30 January 1950. He was credited with 2 months, 26 days of active service and charged with 170 days of lost time. 

DETERMINATION: The subject application was not submitted within the time required. The applicant has not presented and the records do not contain sufficient justification to conclude that it would be in the interest of justice to grant the relief requested or to excuse the failure to file within the time prescribed by law.