Author: CTR

In May 2006, she pled guilty to refusal to obey an order and was sentenced to 4 months jail and a bad conduct discharge. She was released and discharged in July 2006.

At the end of boot camp I felt that it would be easier to take someone’s life than to shot a deer or something like that. I didn’t really like feeling that way. I started questioning where my values lay, and I think they lay up here in Canada.

I didn’t see a connection between the attack on America and Saddam Hussein,” he said. “If I died or killed somebody in Iraq, that would have been wrong.”

In November 2007, he returned and turned himself in. He was court-martialed and jailed at Quantico, Virginia. He was released in February, 2007 with a bad conduct discharge.

Dale was sentenced to four months in prison and a bad conduct discharge. His wife’s charged of “enticing and harboring a deserter” was later dropped.

It is also my belief that if a soldier is refusing an order he knows to be wrong, it is not right for him to face persecution for it.