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Originally Posted by Pinhead
He's a 1LT, I think. The article says he joined the army in 2003. Probably started ROTC in fall 1998 assuming he could get a free degree, do four years and get out.
9/11 must have been a terrible shock for the poor boy. But not so bad that he refused a tour in Korea with soju and hazard pay. Betcha he wouldn't refuse an assignment to Germany, either.
I'm torn between saying he should be forced to go and see what the real world can be like, or saying he should be tossed in the stockade so he doesn't get anyone else killed.
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He was commissioned through OCS. There is no reason to suppose that his motives in seeking a commission in 2003 weren't noble and that he simple had a change of heart, or more appropriately a loss of heart, subsequently.
Notwithstanding that, I disagree with Terry and sdiver. Imprisonment or dishonorable discharge? I would proffer charges under Article 85 and Article 99, with notice to seek the death penalty. The punk thinks a simple AWOL charge would be the bad-old Army "piling on"? The soldiers under his command who go to Iraq do it knowing they are risking their lives to do their duty; if he thinks his judgment is so much better and his principles so much stronger than his superiors, he should be ready to risk his life on his little gamble as well.