After medical specialists testified that the Army's own medications had likely caused Pogany's mental breakdown, officials dropped all charges against him and medically retired him with an honorabledischarge.
Mr. Johnson, who served in the Coast Guard between 1973 and 1977 before receiving an honorabledischarge, moved into a second-floor apartment in a six-floor walk-up building on the East 82nd Street about 18 months ago.