Just read a story of AWOL soldier in Canada who wants to come home but bad old uncle sam will send him to Iraq if he returns. What kind of military does the deserter think we have ? If the soldiers dictate when they will do their jobs what's the point of having a standing army ?
2006-11-03 23:09:29 · 8 answers · asked by Cain 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I've just come to believe that people are stupid...they think the military is going to give them a job and a paycheck, and that they'll never have to give anything back.
And it's not 1 person who went AWOL it's 220 at this point.
2006-11-05 12:57:12 · answer #1 · answered by kherome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things like that happen...and always will
quote from link
The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik
By Zena Simmons / The Detroit News
On Jan. 31, 1945, Hamtramck-born Eddie Slovik was executed by firing a squad near the village of Ste-Marie aux Mines for the crime of desertion. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander, personally ordered the execution during the closing days of World War II in order to deter other potential deserters.
During World War II, 21,049 American military personel were convicted of desertion, 49 were sentenced to death, but only Pvt. Slovik paid the ultimate price. In fact, he was the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=103&category=people
Anybody who has been in the military can tell you about malingerers or chronic AWOL/missing movement.
Is there a military unit that does not have one of these types?
2006-11-04 07:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I don't abide going AWOL or deserting last I checked being in the Military doesn't stop you being a citizen...just makes you covered by UCMJ and civilian laws as well...and don't forget the Geneva Convention....
2006-11-04 07:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by chiefof nothing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I person goes AWOL so you assume all soldiers have the same position?
2006-11-04 07:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by madjer21755 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guarantee there were more soldiers executed for desertion, of course thought, such things are kept hush hush. If a platoon leader was loosing control of his platoon, drastic measures sometime may be necessary.
2006-11-04 08:00:21 · answer #5 · answered by Tim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The recruiter do very shady things when signing up young men and women. I have heard them make promises of safe deployment just to get them to sign...once the young person signs there is, of course, no promise kept.
This is where they get the ideas they can determine where they are deployed...
2006-11-04 07:25:33 · answer #6 · answered by silverback487 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, he is quite the disgrace to the Army.
2006-11-04 08:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the recruiter's office.
2006-11-04 07:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by Frank R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋