Once again...he’s NOT YET A DESERTER. He was not classed as a deserter or AWOL, he was classed as “captured” or some such. We don’t send good soldiers after deserters in wartime. Whether he did in fact desert will be determined either by a general court martial panel or by his own guilty plea.
“We don’t send good soldiers after deserters in wartime.”
Tell that to his fellow soldiers and to the families that lost loved ones looking for him. EVERYONE knew from the beginning that there was a high likelihood that he deserted his post and simply walked away. And there was an investigation that began soon after he returned. Once again, the military does NOT automatically give out back pay to potential deserters. If he has been given the money, then it was because an Obama bootlicker ordered it.