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Posted: 3/22/2017 10:53:08 AM EDT

[#1]

IIRC.... believe it or not...

there was a guy who went awol from fort Campbell.... guy moved to Clarksville tenn, ( like 10 miles away)...... 20-30 years later, they finally caught up to him....

get this. ACCORDING TO THE NEWS ARTICLE I read, the gov fucked up the paperwork somehow back when he originally went awol..., and they had to pay the guy 20+ years in backpay....

fucking tards.

no, I cant explain how he got backpay.... but the article I read claimed he had to pay a fine of some kind, ( $1000-$10,000 or something), but then the article claimed the man was to receive full back pay for the last 20-30 x years.... due to paperwork issues of some kind.

I'm sure he could pay his 10k fine out of his hundreds of k in back pay.

Posted: 3/22/2017 10:58:55 AM EDT

[#2]

He was on the board of the HOA. Fucker should've been jailed a long time ago just for that fact alone.

Posted: 3/22/2017 10:59:32 AM EDT

[#3]

They will just hold him long enough to give him an OTH discharge.
No one goes looking for these guys. If one falls in their laps, the military will process the paperwork for the discharge with no benefits. It is usually a OTH discharge since a DD would be appealed and that means more paperwork.

Posted: 3/22/2017 11:03:28 AM EDT

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The Air Force never forgets. Except maybe where the real nukes are stored. Or the keys to the silo. Or the codes. But hey, gotta get after the old man! Can't have him out there flaunting his desertion in our noses.

Posted: 3/22/2017 11:31:58 AM EDT

[#5]

So it's good to arrest someone for not being where they are supposed to be, but we cannot figure out what's to do with those who are where they should not be.
As long as illegals can freely gather to protest I cannot support this.

Posted: 3/22/2017 11:38:16 AM EDT

[#6]

Of all the cases I know of dudes going AWOL, 100% were shitbags that shouldn't have been there in the first place and no one else wanted them there either.

I wish the one retard I had to chapter out of the army had gone AWOL. It would have saved me and my squad leader a lot of time.

Posted: 3/22/2017 11:38:20 AM EDT

[#7]

Firing squad

Posted: 3/22/2017 11:44:10 AM EDT

[#8]

Fuck him.

Posted: 3/22/2017 12:13:09 PM EDT

[#9]

Punishment should be for him to serve whatever time was left on his contract on active duty. Make him do basic over again and start as an E-1. DoD could turn this into a great example for the current military members to reconsider AWOL. Plus I would watch the crap out of the YouTube videos of a 75 year old E-1 doing basic with the 18 year olds.

Posted: 3/22/2017 12:34:41 PM EDT

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Punishment should be for him to serve whatever time was left on his contract on active duty. Make him do basic over again and start as an E-1. DoD could turn this into a great example for the current military members to reconsider AWOL. Plus I would watch the crap out of the YouTube videos of a 75 year old E-1 doing basic with the 18 year olds.

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And, what do the Drill Sergeants do when 75-year old Airman Shitbag Deserter sits down and refuses to train? Should they waste their limited time processing punitive actions on him for antics in Basic, or should they be free to concentrate on the Airmen who volunteered to be there, knowing that some DoD civilian is processing the paperwork to discharge the old fucker?

Posted: 3/22/2017 12:43:25 PM EDT

[#11]

I wonder how many free meals at Chili's this guy got on Veterans Day while on the run.

Posted: 3/22/2017 12:50:30 PM EDT

[#12]

Small world.

Mom calls me yesterday. Says there are 7 cop cars at Bill's house across the street. I tell her to lock up and keep me posted.

Turns out it's THIS Bill. Good guy. He helped me when my dad was home hospice two years ago. No one knew.

If she gets any further information I'll share it here.

Posted: 3/22/2017 12:57:45 PM EDT

[#13]

they wont do shit to him.. they didn't do shit to the girl in my company who went AWOL x2 in basic

Posted: 3/22/2017 1:06:13 PM EDT

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From my experience, what usually happens is that the deserter gets busted for some civ violation, like a traffic ticket, and when the cops do their NCIC check he pops up as a deserter wanted by military authorities. They hold him and chasers pick him up and escort him to wherever (I think for the Corps, they bring them all to the brig at Quantico) then courtmartial him, suspend the sentence, and give him the DD Boot. If there is a delay in court-martialing him, and the guy is compliant, sometimes they'll stick him in a uniform and have him working in an admin shop or out painting rocks.

ETA: I seem to remember one case where a guy deserted six months prior to his EAS to go home and take care of a sick family member and years later he was picked up and was allowed to finish up the six months before getting a GENDIS. But the guy had been a waterwalker prior to deserting and he got a sympathetic court.

Posted: 3/22/2017 1:11:44 PM EDT

[#15]

It's just a wild-ass educated guess, but the USAF wasn't actively pursuing this guy. He was probably fingerprinted for something and they got a hit through NCIC.

Posted: 3/22/2017 1:14:17 PM EDT

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It's just a wild-ass educated guess, but the USAF wasn't actively pursuing this guy. He was probably fingerprinted for something and they got a hit through NCIC.

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None of the services actively pursue them. They just put out a notice into NCIC and if they ever cross the path of law enforcement they get scooped up.

Posted: 3/22/2017 1:16:12 PM EDT

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Fake name, Fake DOB

OCALA, Fla. - A man who had been living under a fictitious name since going AWOL from the Air Force in 1972 during the Vietnam War was arrested Tuesday in Ocala, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.

Linley Benson Lemburg, 75, had been living under the alias William Michael Robertson and had listed his birthday as Aug. 29, 1951, which is a decade after he was actually born.

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Linley Benson Lemburg, 75, had been living under the alias William Michael Robertson and had listed his birthday as Aug. 29, 1951, which is a decade after he was actually born.

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Posted: 3/22/2017 1:34:28 PM EDT

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Did he voluntarily enlist or was he drafted?

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Did the AF draft people?

Hint, did the AF or Navy have problems meeting manpower strengths and took draftees?

Posted: 3/22/2017 1:47:18 PM EDT

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Small world.

Mom calls me yesterday. Says there are 7 cop cars at Bill's house across the street. I tell her to lock up and keep me posted.

Turns out it's THIS Bill. Good guy. He helped me when my dad was home hospice two years ago. No one knew.

If she gets any further information I'll share it here.

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Wow.
Arfcom is amazing. NO matter the topic or situation, somebody will be along shortly with more info.

Posted: 3/22/2017 2:59:10 PM EDT

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None of the services actively pursue them. They just put out a notice into NCIC and if they ever cross the path of law enforcement they get scooped up.

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It's just a wild-ass educated guess, but the USAF wasn't actively pursuing this guy. He was probably fingerprinted for something and they got a hit through NCIC.

None of the services actively pursue them. They just put out a notice into NCIC and if they ever cross the path of law enforcement they get scooped up.

That's what I figured.

Posted: 3/22/2017 3:10:25 PM EDT

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Didn't Jmy Carter do a blanket pardon on every deserter and draft dodger from that time?

I met a guy when I was in the Marine Corps that had deserted 6 years early. He was having woman troubles. His wife had left him just before a float. He went UA to get her back. She wouldn't take him back. By this time he decided that she was gone for good he was too scared to go back.

He was getting remarried and told his bride to be about his situation. She made him go back to Cherry Point NC and sort it out first. He had his ID card and a uniform left. He reported back to Cherry Point and the MP's brought him to our unit, the one he left.

Since he voluntarily returned and had a uniform and his identification the JAG decided the Unauthorized Abscense and not Desertion was the appropriate charge. He did 2 weeks restriction and a half months pay and discharged.

Posted: 4/21/2017 11:20:14 AM EDT

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Update:

He is back home this morning. He was officially discharged from the service, and there will be no charges. It's all done.

Posted: 4/21/2017 11:25:43 AM EDT

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He is back home this morning. He was officially discharged from the service, and there will be no charges. It's all done.

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Really? I read he was going to get 30 days jail.

Posted: 4/21/2017 11:32:17 AM EDT

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Prepare to be disappointed. We've had threads like this in the past and they end up just telling him "You shouldn't have done that!"

Even though we were at war when he boogied out they don't shoot deserters. Even though it's in the rule book. Buncha candy asses these days.

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The military is very soft on AWOL cases, even when they go long enough to be desertion.

In my time in every single one I saw just led to them being chaptered out. A guy in my platoon that I was close to at one time (we both came in with the same batch of cherries) that I went to Afghanistan and Iraq with just up and vanished. I knew he had gotten strung out on drugs and when his wife could not find him she came to me and we could never figure out where we went as his car was still in his parking lot and all of his shit (he used to be REALLY squared away) was tossed/missing like someone was either ransacking it or he was pawning everything.

Well he turned up over a year later, right before I got out. His mom just bought him a plane ticket and put him in rehab for a year. When he came back to Ft Bragg and turned himself in they just put in a holdover unit and chaptered him. They do not even give out dishonorable discharges usually, just OTH.

If you desert for a year that needs some fucking jail time.