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03-21-2010, 01:30 PM
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He is sat safe and sound with his feet up without a care in the world. Yet soldiers are dying and being maimed, whilst protecting the rights of the individual. I know two men who did several tours of duty with PTSD. What gives him the right to pick who and when he fights. He took the queens shilling, there fore he should serve, even if only to burn the buckets of shit from the toilets at Camp Bastion
AWOL British soldier jailed
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00999/glentonmain_999286a.jpg AWOL ... Lance Corporal Joe Glenton
Masons
A SOLDIER who went AWOL rather than serve a second tour in Afghanistan was jailed for nine months today.
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who was also reduced to the ranks, was sentenced at a military court in Colchester, Essex, after admitting the absent without leave charge.
The court martial hearing was told that Glenton, who later campaigned against the conflict, was discovered to be absent on June 11, 2007, when he was due to return to Dalton Barracks in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00999/genton380_999287a.jpg Protest ... soldier did not want to return to Afghanistan
He was absent for 737 days before handing himself in, prosecutor Group Captain Tim Backer said.
He said that the 27-year-old had performed a seven-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2006 serving with the Royal Logistic Corps.
When Glenton returned he was ordered to go back to the conflict zone after nine months even though military guidelines suggest soldiers should not be deployed again within 18 months.
Mitigating, Nick Wrack, told the court that when Glenton raised concerns about going back he suffered bullying.
He said Glenton had suffered from post traumatic stress disorder after his first stint in the war zone.
He said: "When he first raised with his staff sergeant his reluctance to be deployed again, instead of being dealt with in a sensible way it resulted in the sergeant at the time bullying and intimidating Lance Corporal Glenton.
"He was called a coward and a malingerer.
"When this information was brought to his commanding officer, the sergeant was spoken to, but this reinforced the bullying."
He is sat safe and sound with his feet up without a care in the world. Yet soldiers are dying and being maimed, whilst protecting the rights of the individual. I know two men who did several tours of duty with PTSD. What gives him the right to pick who and when he fights. He took the queens shilling, there fore he should serve, even if only to burn the buckets of shit from the toilets at Camp Bastion
AWOL British soldier jailed
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00999/glentonmain_999286a.jpg AWOL ... Lance Corporal Joe Glenton
Masons
A SOLDIER who went AWOL rather than serve a second tour in Afghanistan was jailed for nine months today.
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who was also reduced to the ranks, was sentenced at a military court in Colchester, Essex, after admitting the absent without leave charge.
The court martial hearing was told that Glenton, who later campaigned against the conflict, was discovered to be absent on June 11, 2007, when he was due to return to Dalton Barracks in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00999/genton380_999287a.jpg Protest ... soldier did not want to return to Afghanistan
He was absent for 737 days before handing himself in, prosecutor Group Captain Tim Backer said.
He said that the 27-year-old had performed a seven-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2006 serving with the Royal Logistic Corps.
When Glenton returned he was ordered to go back to the conflict zone after nine months even though military guidelines suggest soldiers should not be deployed again within 18 months.
Mitigating, Nick Wrack, told the court that when Glenton raised concerns about going back he suffered bullying.
He said Glenton had suffered from post traumatic stress disorder after his first stint in the war zone.
He said: "When he first raised with his staff sergeant his reluctance to be deployed again, instead of being dealt with in a sensible way it resulted in the sergeant at the time bullying and intimidating Lance Corporal Glenton.
"He was called a coward and a malingerer.
"When this information was brought to his commanding officer, the sergeant was spoken to, but this reinforced the bullying."