Woods v. United States

The plaintiff, a lieutenant commander (Medical Corps) in the Navy, seeks a readjustment of his accounts and a judgment for the amount due him on such readjustment on the basis of the inclusion for longevity purposes of service for ten months and ten days as an interne in the Public Health Service, then called the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, under the act of May 18, 1920 (41 Stat. 604), providing “ That hereafter longevity pay for officers in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be based on the total of all service…