Legal Opinion
Bobby Gene Keeny v. Secretary of the Army and Army Board for Corrections of Military Records
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 9, 1971No. 20432PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
This case comes to us on appeal from an order of the district court denying petitioner’s request for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondents to correct his military record. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.
Petitioner Keeny entered the military service on August 2, 1950, and was honorably discharged on September 25, 1952; he reenlisted the next day and on December 18, 1953, was given a discharge for unfitness. It appears that this discharge was a result of several infractions of Army regulations. Petitioner states that these infractions were caused by his…
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