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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
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If I was a betting man, it will be significant jail time. Looking at the ladder punishment for AWOL right through to desertion, he would fall under the most serious category which is Desertion during a time of war, which from a sentencing standpoint is open ended. (life in prison to death).
I doubt that the Death Penalty is on the table, and I doubt that the government would move for execution. But I'm betting he gets 20 years and is out in 10.
The problem is that it wasn't like he avoided hazardous duty before being deployed there. If he had been deployed to Afghanistan and refused to go there, he would be looking at a sentencing guideline of dishonorable discharge, forfeit all pay and allowances, Reduction in rank to the lowest rank possible and a 5 year prison sentence.
Because he was in a war zone the sentencing will be far more severe.