Diane Y. WASHINGTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H. Lawrence GARRETT, III, Secretary of the Navy, Defendant-Appellee

*1424FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Diane Washington appeals pro se the district court’s order granting partial summary judgment to the government and dismissing the remainder of her suit asserting claims of unlawful personnel practices and employment discrimination against the Navy. Because Washington alleges triable claims with respect to her separation from the Navy, we reverse in part the district court’s grant of summary judgment.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY1

From November 1986 to July 1988, Diane Washington, an honorably discharged Vietnam veteran, was employed as a Public Affairs Specialist at the…