“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.
You seem determined to be obtuse about the facts of military pay. I don’t have anything else to say.