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  • Sailor who refused to learn how to fire a gun because of 'immoral' Afghan war jailed...

    07/05/2011 11:39:09 PM PDT · by naturalman1975 · 19 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 5th July 2011
    A Royal Navy medic was jailed for seven months today after he refused to draw a gun because he disagreed with the war in Afghanistan. Leading Medical Advisor Michael Lyons disobeyed the order by an officer to pick up an SA80 as part of rifle training on the grounds that it was 'against his moral beliefs.' Lyons, 25, told a court martial he became disillusioned with the service after reading about troops killing civilians on whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. He had already applied for, but had been denied, conscientious objector status when he was ordered to undertake the rifle training before...