AWOL Soldier Claims Mistreatment By Commanders, Wants Inquiry

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Source: Associated Press

March 7th, 2008 8:12 pm
AWOL soldier claims mistreatment by commanders, wants inquiry

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) -- A 10th Mountain Division soldier who went AWOL claiming his commanding officers threatened to send him back to Iraq despite his listing as medically unfit for combat planned to surrender Friday to Fort Drum authorities and ask for an investigation into his treatment.

Spec. Bryan Currie, 21, of Charleston, S.C., will ask U.S. Secretary of the Army Pete Geren to convene a Court of Inquiry -- a rarely used administrative fact-finding process -- to investigate top generals at Fort Carson, Colo.; Fort Drum, N.Y.; and Fort Hood, Texas, said Tod Ensign of the New York City-based veterans' advocacy group CitizenSoldier.

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The court should "investigate the extent to which the (generals) have been derelict in failing to provide for the health and welfare of wounded soldiers," according to the request.

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Currie said he was injured during his 2006 deployment to Afghanistan when the Humvee he was driving hit a roadside bomb. He spent a month in a hospital in Kandahar recovering from a broken jaw, burns, shrapnel wounds, and knee, back, and other injuries, but he managed to complete his tour. He was awarded a Purple Heart and Army Commendation Medal of Valor, he said.

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[Ilsa]

1. They volunteer to serve their country, not to be carelessly abused

by someone with power over them. If the brass don't appreciate the soldiers, how can they expect others to?

[noel adamson]

2. Maybe with enough publicity he will get an "inquiry" but I doubt it and doubt that, if they do....

...convene a Court of Inquiry it will be a hoax designed to exonerate the military on this case and all the other ones like it.

Aside from the right or wrong of aggressive warfare these commanders are the reason we cannot win wars and do not consider defense an important thing. Defense like that which was completely absent from the most strategically important portions of the United States on September 11th, 2001.