Is there a reason why the MP’s couldn’t have just taken him into custody as AWOL and put him on a Military Plane to Afghanistan? That would have saved everyone in this matter a whole lot of grief.
I agree that someone would have done him a big favor by smacking him upside the head.
I suspect that to take someone into custody would have required charges, and then a hearing. So, yes, they could have taken him. But, no, they wouldn’t have sent him to Afghan.