Something is fishy here. Was he going to Iraq or Ranger School? You can't be in two places at one time. He didn't fight in Afghanistan? Huh? Either the reporter doesn't know diddly-squat about the military (always highly likely) or the soldier told a 'Rather' when talking to him/her. Or both, I suppose.
Look, there are two options here:
1) They desert and are banned from the U.S. for life.
2) They stay, go to jail, and they vote here until then.
Me, I wish more of the coward left would move to Canada. I think it's almost more respectable to be an outright dodger and take the heat for it by losing your citizenship than going the John F'in Kerry route, where you pull out all the stops to get out of serving, get caught, game the system to get out, and then badmouth your 'fellow servicemen' with extra standing due to your 'service.'
But think about this particular coward's cost to the the country. If he is ever allowed back, he should be a pack mule for the army until it's recouped the cost of putting his ass into training as a Ranger!
This assumes that the guy ever was such a thing, anyway. Wouldn't be the first time a super-duper-vet-military-mofo fraud cropped up.
I can understand the fear of dying, or unwillingness to kill other human beings, but seriously, if he didn't want to do both of those things, he shouldn't have volunteered. It's not like a truckload of draft agents jumped out and caught him with a large butterfly net and took him away against his will.
Just how did his anti-killing beliefs materialize.
My guess is a religious change to Muslim. He would then find himself on the wrong side as other who have been indoctrinated into Islam have.
But this is not a religious war, so I suppose I am wrong.