McMillan v. Dep't of Justice, No. 15-3042 (Fed. Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseIn 2007, McMillan a GS-13 Criminal Investigator with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and an officer in the Army Reserves. was assigned to the Lima, Peru DEA Office. His tour at Lima was to expire in 2010, but he successfully sought a one-year extension. In 2010, two months after a controversy concerning his the use of a DEA Foreign Situation Report in a military intelligence report, and his participation in a teleconference, McMillan unsuccessfully requested an additional two years. McMillan contends that the decision not to renew his tour was based improperly on his military service, in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. 430. McMillan’s complaint with the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service was found unsupported; an AJ cited McMillan’s “performance issues,” in terms of the number of arrests, seizures, informant recruitment, and disruptions of criminal organizations McMillan facilitated; McMillan’s alleged failure to follow his chain of command in soliciting assistance with his military assignment; and McMillan’s “disdain[ful],” “arroga[nt], “disrespectful and improper” emails to his supervisor. The Merit Systems Protection Board denied McMillan’s appeal. The Federal Circuit reversed. DEA failed to demonstrate that it would have made the same decision in the absence of McMillan’s military service.
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