There are some in the military who enjoy the benefits, the job security, etc, but when it comes time to actually do the thing they signed up for, they whine.
He should take his court martial like a man.
Of course the Media frames the debate is if it is about free speech. When you join the Army, you give up a lot of those rights.
Army officer court-martial tests free speech
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. Army officer, whose public refusal to go fight in
Iraq made him a champion of the anti-war movement, faces a court-martial next week when a military panel could determine the limits of free-speech rights for officers.
First Lt. Ehren Watada faces up to four years in prison if convicted on a charge of missing movements and two charges of conduct unbecoming an officer when his court-martial starts on Monday at Fort Lewis, an Army base near Seattle.
Watada, a 28-year-old artillery officer, refused to deploy with his brigade to Iraq last summer and called the war illegal and immoral. He refused conscientious-objector status, saying he would fight in
Afghanistan but not Iraq.
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The army is retarded. If the kid says he'd fight in Afghanistan, transfer his ass out of his unit and ship him to Afghanistan. There are plenty of IA billets to fill.
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