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B-191816 1 (1978-05-26)

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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE            -        6
         WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
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IN REPLY
REFER TO.  B-191816


,'l= OF GENERAL COUNSEL


The Honorable Barbara Allen Babcock
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Division
Department of Justice

    Attention: LeRoy Southmayd, Jr., Attorney
              Court of Claims Section

Dear Ms. Babcock:

    Subject:                  v. United States,
            Court of Claims No. 407-77


. Reference is made to your letter dated April 26, 1978 (file refer-
ence BAB:LS:els 154-151-78), and statutory call form of the same
date, requesting a report on a petition filed April 11, 1978, in the
above-entitled case, wherein plaintiff seeks to have his name placed
on the disability retired list effective February 1, 1977, and receive
retired pay based on such status or in the alternative, seeks read-
justment pay in the sum of $15, 000.

    There is no record of any claim having been filed by the plaintiff
with the General Accounting Office on account of matters set forth
in the petition and we have no information as to the facts of the case
other than the allegations made therein.

    The petition contains allegations relating to certain enumerated
injuries sustained by the plaintiff in 1972 while serving on active duty
in the United States Air Force as a Reserve colonel, and his release
from that duty on January 31, 1977. Plaintiff contends that despite
those injuries and the fact that his medical condition as a result
thereof remain unabated, he was released from active duty as being
physically fit. Plaintiff alleges that at the time of his release he
was in fact unfit for military duty and is entitled to be retired for
disability. He argues that the action by the Secretary in so releas-
ing him as fit for duty was arbitrary, capricious and contrary to
law and fact. In support of that position, plaintiff avers that effective
February 1, 1977, the Veterans Administration rated him at 60 per-
cent for degenerative arthritis.


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