People go AWOL from the military all the time. It isn't really considered newsworthy unless something like this happens.
It's not like they send bounty hunters after them. The way the military sees it, they'll pop up on the radar sooner or later.
“People go AWOL from the military all the time. It isn’t really considered newsworthy unless something like this happens. It’s not like they send bounty hunters after them. The way the military sees it, they’ll pop up on the radar sooner or later.”
I could see that...I was just thinking of the Afghanistan guy who went to the other side...he was a big story.
Swift’s Navy bio shows he was a SEAL who has been in ‘active deserter status’ since March 11, 2019......a special warfare operator 1st Class who enlisted in the Navy in 2005.
Swift was most recently stationed in Coronado, California, and had also done stints in Alaska, Illinois, Florida and Georgia. He had earned numerous awards, including a Legion of Merit, a Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal, an Iraq Campaign Medal and an Afghanistan Campaign Medal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-seal-daniel-swift-killed-ukraine-official-says/
When I was growing up, there was a family in the neighborhood whose son had gone AWOL during Vietnam. I never saw the guy but was somewhat friendly with his sisters. Anyway, they DID come looking for him - on more than one occasion.