After the 15 year period has elapsed, your only opportunity to change your discharge is before the Board for Correction of Military Records.

The Board for Correction of Military Records, unlike the Discharge Review Boards, may review discharges awarded by a general court-martial. This board may review cases that include, but are not limited to requests; for physical disability retirement; the cancellation of a physical disability discharge and substituting, in lieu thereof, retirement for disability; and increase in the percentage of physical disability; the removal of derogatory material from an official record. The board will also hear review of non-judicial punishment; and the restoration of rank, grade, or rating.

Also, this board will review the case of a person who is in a Reserve component and who contends that his/her release from active duty should have been honorable, rather than under honorable conditions.

The law requires that applications be filed with the Board for Correction of Military Records within 3 years of the date of the discovery of the error or injustice. However, the board is authorized to excuse the fact that the application was filed at a later date if it finds it to be in the interest of justice to consider the application. The board is empowered to deny an application without a hearing if it determines that there is insufficient evidence to indicate the existence of probable material error or injustice to the respondent.

No application will be considered by the board until the applicant has exhausted all other effective administrative remedies afforded him/her by existing law or regulations, and such other legal remedies as the board shall determine are practical and appropriately available to the applicant.

The board will consider an applicant's case on the basis of all the material before it. Including but, not limited to, the application for correction filed by the applicant, any documentary evidence filed in support of such application, any brief submitted by or in behalf of the applicant, and all available pertinent records in the Service Department. The applicant's service record is but one of the records which may be considered by the Board.

There is no law or regulation which provides that an unfavorable discharge may be changed to a more favorable discharge solely because of the expiration of a period of time after discharge during which the respondent's behavior has been exemplary. To permit relief, an error or injustice must be found to have existed during the period of the enlistment in question and respondent's good conduct after discharge, in and of it, is not sufficient to warrant changing an unfavorable discharge to a more favorable type of discharge.