This punk is not AWOL - after 30 days he is a deserter.
He deserves the "Patton treatment" decribed in this thread.
Excellent point, I wonder how close the US Marshals were to catching him. I had an E-6 of mine go AWOL after he came up hot on the whiz quiz. After 30 days it was turned over to the US Marshals. It took them about 6 months to catch him.