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You've offered a series of assertions, at least one of which is false.*Huey » 11 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I will make my case.
The only way to be charged with desertion is to be AWOL for 30 days or more. AWOL is charge under the UCMJ. (Google it). The UCMJ is federal code. In order to be charged under the UCMJ you have to be either active duty or FEDERALIZED.
So no, no AWOL means no Desertion. Just for the record Kerry himself requested early discharge as did Bush.
Options, I told you to stay out of military matters. You don't listen.
Bush remained obligated to train with his Texas unit or to perform substitute training elsewhere each month.[32] On September 5, 1972, he requested permission to "perform equivalent duty" at the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in Alabama "for the months of September, October, and November." He did not receive approval to do so, though his commanding officer recommended he be granted permission. He would have reported to Lieutenant Colonel William Turnipseed, the base commander, for drills on October 7 and 8, and November 4 and 5 (the September drill dates of the unit had already passed). Bush's grandfather, former U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, died of cancer on October 8, and Bush served as a pallbearer at the funeral in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Turnipseed has said that he could not recall whether Bush reported on those occasions
Don't run your taint scrubber, Sheilagh.