United States v. Rayle

GREGORY, Judge:

Appellant stands convicted of an unauthorized absence from 6 October 1975 to 9 August 1977, in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 886. The sentence approved on review below provides for a bad-conduct discharge and reduction to pay grade E — 1.

The question presented by this case is whether appellant’s unauthorized absence was terminated on 17 October 1975, when he went to the Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, and talked to two Navy doctors. We believe that appellant’s visit to the Medical Center did constitute a return to…