Noyd v. Bond

Petitioner is a career officer in the Air Force who has come to believe that this country’s participation in the Vietnamese conflict is unjust and immoral. Having decided that he would do nothing to further the Nation’s military effort in Southeast Asia, Captain Noyd refused to obey an order, issued December 5, 1967, requiring him *685to teach one of the junior officers at the Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, to fly a military airplane.1

In response, Major General Charles Bond, Jr., the Commander of the Twelfth Air Force, convened a general court-martial at the Cannon Base. On March 8, 1968, the…