what happens if you run away out of the army?

Question

my friend is in training, so she's not technically part of the army yet, but she keept on getting in trouble, then told the authorities she's gay and has a gf. she thought she was gonna get kicked out for being a bad soldier anyway, so she ran away. what are the consequences for what she did?

Answer 1

It's called going AWOL (absent without leave) She may get a dishonorable discharge or court marshal (especially if she lied about being gay to get out)

Answer 2

She is part of the army before she started her training. You sign a contract and raise your right hand before you go.
Since this country is at war, the rules change. In peacetime, she would be Away Without Leave. Now she will be classified as a Deserter. That use to be met with a firing squad.

Because she has used the Don't Ask Don't Tell rule, she was probably already being processed out, so she didn't really need to run away.
In short, she is probably in some deep trouble when she gets caught.

Answer 3

Its called failure to adapt.

No ones looking for her right now!
What will happen is if shes ever picked up by authorites, the first thing she has to do is tell them she is AWOL from the Army.
If she doesnt tell them and they find out then that constitutes blatant desertion.

This is war time, and she could suffer severe consequences for it.

What she has to do is show, not tell, that she cant adapt to the army style.
Shes showed it by leaving. What will happen is she needs to go back.

there are 3 levels of AWOL each with 3 different maximum punishments.
3 days, 30 or 60 days, then beyond that.

What I suggest is she returns to her training station or even to her recruiter, and tells them she cant addapt.
They willl try to scare her into staying, saying this and that, but all she has to do is leave again, and return again.

You have 6 months after you arrive at your duty station where you can easily be dismissed with a failure to adapt discharge.

But have her return, nomatter how scared she is.
And she tells the commanding officer of her station, that she will run away again.
She cant handle it,.
That should work.

Theyll make itt hard, but right now is better then getting to her duty station and havign them charge her with desertion.
Its not technically desertion since shes merely a recruit -- so any lawyer could argue a failure to adapt for her

Answer 4

Your friend has enlisted in the service. At some time she will be caught, court marshaled and given a dishonorable discharge.
This type of discharge is akin to a felony conviction. I would urge your friend to return to her unit and continue to try to separate from the army. The army does not want to waste our money on undependable folks. On the other hand your friend made a pledge. As a veteran, I think I can speak for many in that I would not want someone guarding my back who was not committed to the task.

Answer 5

She will be arrested and put in the Brigg. Brigg is military jail. She is considered AWOL (absent without Leave). She will get a minimum of 6 months in the Brigg. She should turn her self in when she gets caught and she will get caught she will be in more trouble than if she would just turn herself in. She will be dishonorable discharged which will stay with her for the rest of her life. There is away to get the dishonorable discharged expunged later in life if she proves she has become a better citizen and stays out of trouble.

Answer 6

What the regulation says and what is going to truly ensue to you're actually not an identical. Technically, you should be finished. Will you be finished? No. A deserter, many times speaking, is once you're "absent devoid of bypass away" for greater desirable than 30 days. There are different techniques you are able to classify as a deserter too, like in case you paintings with precise secret assistance and bypass AWOL yet once you prefer to examine greater approximately that- look it up. Statistically speaking, infantrymen (or airman, Marines, and so on) who return VOLUNTARILY to their gadgets after being AWOL do by no ability see a courtroom martial intending (no longer saying the militia can not charge you, only usually they do no longer.) what's probably to ensue, and this varies in accordance to branch, rank your commander, public coverage, and so on, is non- judicial punishment and different administrative strikes like extending your settlement to make up for time misplaced. as quickly as lower back, the militia handles those circumstances on a case by ability of case foundation with most of the above factored in to boot because of the fact the circumstances surrounding your project. What you're able to understand is particular that's against the regulation, particular you would be arrested if got here across. Will the militia come finding for you? in all probability no longer yet they'll notify base workers who paintings in extreme inhabitants aspects of your id and problems with that nature. base line: DONT bypass AWOL.

Answer 7

There is no such thing as "technically part of the Army yet." Once you sign on the dotted line, you are military, and subject to ALL military rules and regulations. So, if your friend ran away, in war time that is refered to as desertion. If the Army so desires, they could have her butt in a sling.

Answer 8

What is it with this younger generation... not being able to handle responsibility and running away from her problems? If she really is going to play that lezbo card, she may just wind up getting a dishonorable discharge out of it... now that she's run away... she most likely will get one. BTW... if she's in basic... she IS part of the Army!

Go find a new friend... this one's a loser!!!

Answer 9

There is a possibility of prison time in a military prison and of course a dishonorable discharge. Once your friend took the oath to defend the United States she became property of the U.S. goverment and going A.W.O.L. is a crime against your country. This is taken very seriously.

Answer 10

If they investigate and find out she's NOT a lesbian, and for leaving without authorization, she can be charged under the UCMJ articles 83, 84, 85 or 86 (desertion or absent without leave/unauthorized absence),107, 134....not a good thing to be hanging over one's head.
(USN/retired)