A deserter is sentenced
Via Yahoo! News: Spc. Agustin Aguayo, a U.S. Army medic who refused to return to
Iraq because of his opposition to the war, was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday, and could face as long as seven years in prison.
The 35-year-old with the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team served a year as a combat medic in
Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in 2004 after the military turned down his request to be considered a conscientious objector.He then jumped out of a window of his base housing in Germany on Sept. 2 rather than be forced to ship out for a second tour and fled home to California.
He turned himself in to the military at California’s Fort Irwin about three weeks later.
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