Army deserter wants to change recruitment
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A U.S. Army medic jailed for desertion after refusing to return to Iraq is on a mission to tell young Americans about the grim realities of war before they join the military.
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An Army unit that had been scheduled to go to Iraq is being sent instead to Afghanistan, where fighting has increased and the U.S. troop level is at its highest of the war.
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TOKYO - First he struggled through 40 years of life in North Korea as a deserter. Then he spent a month in an American military prison for abandoning his US Army post for the isolated communist state.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan A military court-martial is under way for Charles Jenkins, the Army sergeant who&#39;s accused of deserting his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea.
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Recruit the soldier. Retain the family. That's been common wisdom at the Pentagon for ages.
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Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers - and luring away active-duty ones - for security jobs in Iraq, according to a former army officer who met with the recruiters.
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A US marine charged with desertion from his unit in Iraq has again been declared a deserter.
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An unusual flap has erupted between an Army reserve unit and an Iraq-bound reservist who hopes to raise money for military equipment he wants to bring to the war zone.
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TOKYO: A US soldier who deserted to North Korea four decades ago was yesterday given 30 days confinement and a dishonourable discharge, after confessing he had been scared and wanted to leave the army.
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The U.S. Army Reserve, tapped heavily to provide soldiers for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is "degenerating into a 'broken' force" due to dysfunctional military policies, the Army Reserve's chief said in a memo made public on Wednesday.
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Looking for new ways to bolster its thinning ranks, the Army National Guard is seeking legal authority to offer &#36;15,000 bonuses to active-duty soldiers willing to join the Guard &#151; up from &#36;50 now.
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In response to the Feb. 9 letter from Gabrielle E. Vantol, in which she asks "Can somebody please tell me how we can support our soldiers and their families?" Here is one option. I will warn you though, that this option can become an addictive habit.
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army  sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a  U.S. military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life  with his family in his Japanese wife's hometown.
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US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who allegedly defected to North Korea nearly 40 years ago, is promising to face desertion charges against him soon.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan  - U.S. Army Sergeant Charles  Jenkins gave himself up to American military authorities  Saturday to face charges that he deserted to communist North  Korea four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.
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TOKYO -- Responding to Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins's pledge to surrender after spending four decades in North Korea, US military officials say they are ready to put the frail 64-year-old back in uniform, give him a haircut, set him up in on-base housing -- and then try him for desertion.
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The Army has encountered resistance from more than 2,000 former soldiers it has ordered back to military work.