McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus in which petitioner, Bates, seeks a discharge from the Coast Guard as a conscientious objector. The principal issue is whether there is any "basis in fact" for the Coast Guard's determination that petitioner's objection to war arises from a "sociological and philosphical point of view which [he expounds] as a religious belief but which is actually a personal code."
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