Downes v. United States

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• Feres should only be applied when the service member is “performing duties of such a character” so that a civil suit would “undermine the traditional concepts of military discipline.”
• Plaintiff was on base, but “on a pass pursuing his personal affairs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).