Brownfield v. United States

In this military pay case the plaintiff, a retired colonel in the Air Force, challenges the refusal of the Secretary of the Air Force to accept the recommendation of the Air Force Board for the Correction of Military Records ("the Board”) that plaintiff should be advanced on the retired list from colonel to brigadier general. The defendant has moved for summary judgment dismissing the petition. It contends that the suit is untimely under the statute of limitations, is barred under res judicata and collateral estoppel by a decision of this court dismissing an earlier suit by plaintiff, and is…