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duties as presidential guard, battle reenactments,1 and
operation/field duty at different posts throughout the United
States. Petitioner was never in actual combat.
In February 1984, petitioner underwent a medical evaluation
at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As a result of this
evaluation, petitioner was diagnosed as having “bipolar disorder,
manic, with mood-congruent psychotic features”. This diagnosis
resulted in petitioner’s being “relieved from assignment and duty
because of physical disability incurred while entitled to basic
pay and under conditions which permit * * * [his being placed] on
the Temporary Disability Retired List” as of March 12, 1984.
Petitioner’s effective date of retirement was March 26, 1984. On
November 26, 1985, petitioner was removed from the Temporary
Disability Retired List (TDRL) and put on permanent retirement as
a result of permanent disability.
After his discharge from the United States Army, petitioner
moved back to his parents’ home in Eureka, California. For a
brief period, after his discharge, petitioner attended the
College of the Redwoods, taking a variety of courses, with a
special interest in sociology and psychology. At the time of
trial, petitioner was a first-year apprentice with a pipefitters
union. Sometime in 1984, petitioner was hospitalized in the
General Hospital at Eureka during a psychiatric visit, where it
1We understand these reenactments to be combat simulations.
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