[thegagline]

I wonder how many North Korean spies and arms merchants the Biden administration will exchange for this piece of garbage.

[DoughtyOne]

Hope the guy makes it out okay, if he wants to.

Not sure what’s going on here.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The poor kid has a few screws loose. I feel sorry for his mom — she’s got to be absolutely frantic with worry.

[lee martell]

If a draft was happening now, I suspect this guy would not have even passed the tests to get in. He seems to make really bad judgement calls frequently.

[NWFree]

He was such a good boy and always wanted to be an army rapper said his mother

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Drugs and the Korean DMZ don't mix. Why do you think they call it "dope"?

[struggle]

Some guys will do anything to date an Asian

[montanajoe]

If he is only an E-2 after being in two years there is something else going on...

[logi_cal869]

“crossed” vs “defected”

Alrighty then. Call me when I have a reason to care and they get their story straight.

[PghBaldy]

I feel bad for him and his family.

[HighSierra5]

Looks like Obamas son.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Mom of US soldier Travis King who defected to North Korea can’t imagine son ‘doing anything like that’

Well, lucky for her - she doesn't have to imagine it, since her son went ahead and did it.

Probably a nut case, but if he has any semblance of sanity left in him he'll eventually come back with a healthy sense of appreciation for America. Time in foreign prisons under foreign systems of law tends to bring that out in a person - just ask Britney Griner.

[twister881]

1) The U.S. armed forces used to deal with the bad conduct of their own and not allow service members to serve time in foreign jails or prisons, including for crimes against host nation citizens. The United States has a status of forces agreement (SOFA) with the ROKs; King should have been handed over immediately to U.S. military authorities for NJP or court martial.
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2) Getting the miscreant service member out of country immediately and under close guard until delivered to a disciplinary barracks or brig should be SOP. Dropping off the soldier at an airport and on own his own is beyond stupid.
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3) Countries such as South Korea, Germany, and Japan with a significant U.S. military presence have been treating service members badly for a long time now. The Japs have a U.S. Naval officer in prison because he experienced a medical emergency while driving and accidentally killed two pedestrians after he lost consciousness. The U.S. administration must grow a spine and stand up to these morons whose asses we’ve kicked and whose bacon we now protect at great cost to the American taxpayer.
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4) Are things so bad in Biden’s woke military that a soldier would rather defect to the Norks than serve in the perv Army?

[PLMerite]

Is his hat on inside-out ?

[cpdiii]

Apparently he of his own volition walked across the border. That by definition is defection. It is now his problem and not ours.

[jerod]

He likely defected for the chicks... Like this loser did.

[Apparatchik]

Why, in situations such this, does Mom’s last name never seem to match the son’s?

[Feckless]

Late 70's Ft Bliss I'm doing my periodic check on fighting positions during an FTX (Field Training Exercise), come to a one man position and sitting in the foxhole is a young female in shorts and tube top, crying her eyes out holding an M16. First thing in my mind comes out my mouth: "Who the F#^&k are you and where is PFC Jones? (name changed to protect the shitbird, who was chaptered out and, according to Face Book is working in a tire store in NM). "We were fighting when he left to go to the field so I drove out to make up. He took my car and gave me his gun."

Had a really fun time briefing the Bn Cdr and CSM on that one.

Point being a GI can F@ck up an anvil with a rubber crowbar.

[ronniesgal]

they will name a base after him eventually.

[FamiliarFace]

He will likely come home in a body bag. Poor Mama.

[Nervous Tick]

He’s a gay blakk. Should be worth a thousand or so spies and saboteurs in the Biden social economy.