John Russell McAliley v. Brig. General William H. Birdsong, Jr., Commanding General United States Armed Forces, Fort Campbell, Kentucky

CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain Appellant McAliley’s release from the allegedly unlawful custody of the United States Army. Appellee Birdsong is the Commanding General at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where McAliley was stationed when he petitioned the District Court. In his petition for a writ of habeas corpus before the District Court, McAliley challenged the validity of his local draft board’s denial of his preinduction application for a consci entious objector classification, and he thus asserted that he was…