Williams v. United States

Plaintiff is an officer in the Coast Guard who alleges that he is entitled to an additional longevity differential based *583on the time he spent as a cadet at the Coast Guard Academy. Both parties have moved for summary judgment.

Plaintiff attended the Coast Guard Academy from August 10, 1945, to June 3, 1949. On the latter date he was commissioned an ensign in the Coast Guard and has since been successively promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Throughout his commissioned service plaintiff has not been given any credit in the computation of his longevity differential for the time he was at the…