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AWOL soldier to surrender at Fort Lewis
KTVB.com ^ | August 11, 2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/11/2006 2:54:59 PM PDT by carlo3b

AWOL soldier to surrender at Fort Lewis

01:43 PM MDT on Friday, August 11, 2006

Associated Press

FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- An Army sergeant who went AWOL from Fort Bragg out of disgust with the Iraq war says he'll turn himself in Friday at Fort Lewis.

Lawyers for 24-year-old Ricky Clousing of Sumner have tried to negotiate a discharge without success. At an anti-war conference Friday morning at the University of Washington, Clousing announced he would turn himself in later at the Army base.

Clousing spent six months in Iraq and says he became confused and disenchanted with the U.S. role in Iraq.

"I stand here before you today about to surrender myself, which was always my intention," Clousing told several dozen friends, family and war veterans -- some conscientious objectors, who gathered in front of a war memorial at the University of Washington campus.

If Clousing turns himself in at Fort Lewis, "he surrenders to military control," Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Hitt said Friday. If military police find that Clousing is either a deserter or absent without leave from the U.S. military, he will be sent back to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the post he walked away from.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiwar; awol; clousing; coward; dickclousing; ftbragg; ftlewis; richardclousing; rickclousing; rickyclousing; sneak
Another traitor that should stand before a firing squad..
1 posted on 08/11/2006 2:55:00 PM PDT by carlo3b
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To: carlo3b

I guess he didn't realize he could have been provided sanctuary at Mother Sheehan's new digs in Crawford.


2 posted on 08/11/2006 2:57:56 PM PDT by CarolinaGOP ("A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: carlo3b

Spot on!


3 posted on 08/11/2006 2:59:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: carlo3b

Here's the link...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681937/posts


4 posted on 08/11/2006 2:59:26 PM PDT by CarolinaGOP ("A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: carlo3b

Wonder what unit ....82nd?


5 posted on 08/11/2006 2:59:55 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: carlo3b

Disenchanted? What was he expecting, an all expense paid cruise and room service?


6 posted on 08/11/2006 3:02:23 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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Like many before him, he may just have discovered that --

War Sucks. Big time.

and may not have been able to handle it. I suppose we will need to see that the Army will do with/to him.

Took my son two tours (and 3 lost squadies) to discover this universal truth. Took me much less - must have been the climate difference.
7 posted on 08/11/2006 3:13:45 PM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: ASOC; TET1968
The rain and humidity sucked. There seems to be a constant in this stuff, my ass is more worthy than yours.

I saw this in the few draft dodgers that I know, from my youth. Even though most of them would have been REMF mail clerks, if they had gone in.

8 posted on 08/11/2006 3:25:43 PM PDT by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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To: carlo3b

"who gathered in front of a war memorial at the University of Washington campus...."

Some gave all, Sarge.


9 posted on 08/11/2006 3:32:06 PM PDT by JakeSladder
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To: carlo3b

Try, convict, sentence.


10 posted on 08/11/2006 5:06:00 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: Little Bill

Lot of guys lost it when they got home mid-tour and landed a new girl, one that, eeerrr, how do I put this - was willing to play house...


A guy thought he had a lot more to loose or was seriously whipped. Either way, wanted nothing to do with playing war - no more.


11 posted on 08/11/2006 5:15:03 PM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: Little Bill

I'd rather he be AWOL then watching my back.


12 posted on 08/11/2006 5:18:13 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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