They recognized him from that picture?
I had a friend in the military that was planning on going “over the hill.” he said his kin in the back woods of the state he was from would protect him.
I managed to talk him out of such nonsense as the military never gives up on looking for deserters, and 60 years of living in the back woods on handouts is a l-o-o-o-ng time.
AWOL is a different matter.
Lesson to would be deserters...change the color of your shirt! Even if 40 years go by.