Many Servicemembers Feel Alleged Deserter Jenkins Should Be Charged

PS&S | July 22, 2004 | By Joseph Giordono

[Former Military Chick]

a story I have been following

[camle]

desert your country rather than fight to protect it, then when you need social security come home and plead illness.

[Dick Vomer]

The only good thing is that his cowardly genes have been extracted out of the American gene pool. He should never be allowed back into the country. He should be placed on a boat, tried in the harbor and packed off to jail on Guam or some brig in Japan. screw him....

actions have consequences. Enough brave men died in Korea and on the DMZ. Same goes for the little b@tches that left for Canada and are now celebrities for bashing the war in Iraq. Revoke citizenship, try them off shore and never allow them back in the country. The only United States soil they should ever feel is the soil of a brig on foreign soil that is under our control.

[jess35]

I'd prosecute the SOB. I don't care how old he is; how sick he is. Lock him up.

[oh8eleven]

Well said ... I agree 100%.

[mtbopfuyn]

And don't forget any vet benefits.

[rabidralph]

“He’s probably too old, too crippled to be punished,” said Master Sgt. Robert Martel of the 730th Air Mobility Squadron.... "But we don’t know all the facts yet. There are reports saying he was kidnapped. Until we know the facts, I’m not sure what should be done, but all that aside, he’s too old to be put in prison. He’ll die there. He’s ailing, and his kids won’t get to see him. What do you do? Is there a middle ground for all of it?”

Stupid, Air Force: military service for liberals!

[Former Military Chick]

Stupid, Air Force: military service for liberals!

While I am sure someone taught you to name call, I assure I served in the Air Force with honor, along with my father, who attended the USMA (West Point) but was given the honor of choosing and Aimed High. He was a communications officer and did amazing things with his career, one to ensure that communication from Reagan to those he needed to contact on Air Force I could be accomplished without interception.

Frankly all services have their difficulties and that can be debated. But, your remarks were really unnecessary.

[oh8eleven]

Cool, a military cat fight - "my branch is better than yours."
Semper Fi ...

[libertylover]

I find kidnapping awfully hard to believe. If they had kidnapped him it seems they would have tried to bargain for him long ago.

As far as intelligence info, I doubt that he knows squat about the North Koreans.

One guy said he's too old for prison. Wrong! Besides, life in a U.S. prison is probably better than "prison" he's been living in.

[BikerNYC]

I thought the sentence for desertion was living in North Korea for 40 years.

[sadimgnik]

If they had kidnapped him it seems they would have tried to bargain for him long ago

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Are you joking?

The NorKors kidnapped a number of Japanese citizens - and then hid that fact for decades.

Kidnapping has been a NorKor policy for more than 50 years - but they then pretend it never happened (Don't ask me why - I've never understood their reasoning).

My gut reaction is that he's probably a deserter - but I'm gonna wait until a full investigation before I make up my mind.

Sadim

[rabidralph]

Okay, maybe that was out of line. I was in the Navy and I served with the AF at Yokota AB and there wasn't a more lazy, whiny, nail-polishing group of people around. And they were the most liberal of all the service members I trained and worked with. I know there were exceptions, and I appreciate you and your father's service.

[rabidralph]

*giggle* I'm sorry for stirring up any trouble.

[Non-Sequitur]

On the other hand, having spent 40 years "living" in North Korea any prison he goes to here would seem like Club Med. Maybe the ultimate punishment would be making him go back?

[oh8eleven]

No trouble at all. You were a "squid" and served with the Air Farce.
Man, it just doesn't get any better than that does it? :>)
Semper Fi ...

[rabidralph]

No, it doesn't, Devil Dog.

[JOE43270]

Look mister, I am United States Air Force and I was on active duty from Feburary 1970 to August 1977. I am far from being liberal or a RAT. You Sir should learn some manners and remember that the people in unform, members of all the United States of Americas Armed Forces past present and future make it possible for you to sleep safely each night. The Gestapo or Stalin's thugs don't come to your house do they.

[Wristpin]

That's perfect! If it is determined that he actually deserted the penalty should be stripping his citizenship and deportation back to North Korea.

[JOE43270]

Now I see what you are. I know there are exceptions and I don't hold the Navy, who I consider my Brothers and Sisters responsible for your whining attitude.