Awol

[Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>]

http://girights.objector.org/

I know a couple of people who thought they got good advice from the 
group above, though I have no idea what came of them.

Project Yano might be able to help  http://www.projectyano.org/

A few rules of thoughts---not from a lawyer but me----there are now 
thousands of deserters. This person is far from alone. The military 
so far seems to be trying to keep most of these cases quiet and they 
have been fairly lenient, although some folks got slammed.

Of course, the person can leave the US. New Zealand is a long way, 
but it is not deporting awols and other resisters, yet. Canada is an 
unreliable ally for deserters now, but there are a lot of people up 
there who have not been forced out yet.

There will be some advice on "turn yourself in," if you want to stay 
in the US. Well, I know people who stayed in the US as Vietnam draft 
dodgers for years, who surfaced when the amnesty was granted, and 
they did ok, though they did not get great jobs, etc. But if you do 
turn yourself in, don't let a JAG lawyer plead you out. Don't ever 
plead guilty to anything. We are innocent. They are guilty.

best r