Army Specialist with the 3rd Signal Brigade, Victor Agosto refused to deploy to Afghanistan on moral and legal grounds. He received 30 days in the county jail and an administrative discharge from the Army. During his build up to the trial he wrote the following on a counseling slip: “There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral and unjust. It does not make the American people any safer. It has the opposite effect.”
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