John H. Harmon, III v. Wilber M. Brucker, Individually and as Secretary of the Department of the Army

Appellant is a youth who was plucked out of civilian life and made a soldier, as are many others, at the threshold of the career he was planning for himself. Before the end of his term of service, he was restored to his civilian status, but hung about his neck was the millstone of “security risk.” The Army has information about his civilian activities and associations on the basis of which it believes it would not be in the national interest to retain him as a soldier, but his military service is admitted to have been “excellent” and he is not claimed to have done anything illegal or…