[battlegearboat]

And they give them honorable discharges?
Not when I was in.
Fish them out, slam 'em in the Brig, give 'em a General Court Martial (no Captain's Mast) and send them back over the side via the plank (or better yet, keel haul 'em).
We are at war and they did desert.

[tubebender]

Fish them out, slam 'em in the Brig, give 'em a General Court Martial

Now Now Now...we can't do that after all we didn't flunk these chillun when their grades bottomed in K-12.