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Originally Posted by willravel
I'm afraid you're wrong. When someone is recruiting, they are making an offer. This consists of both verbal and written in the case above. While the written contract was not breached, the verbal contract was.
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No. I'm afraid I'm right. Read this verrrry carefully. When you enlist...in the United States Armed Forces...there...is...
NO...verbal...contract. Period. Contrary to what you may or may not believe.
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Originally Posted by willravel
So if I sign a legal contract that says I cannot fight in the war, and I later enlist, the first contract goes away?
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What are you talking about? There is no "first contract". There are the enlistment papers, which
are the contract. Pure and simple. And no enlistment document is going to have, anywhere on it, a provision that states that you cannot fight in a war.
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Originally Posted by hiredgun
I have to say I'm very surprised to hear support for shooting him, which would never have entered my mind as within the range of possible punishments for any kind of desertion.
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The maximum penalty, for desertion, is death by firing squad. This has not been done since WWII. And I only suggested that he be shot, somewhat tounge in cheek. That is a military euphamism for the maximum penalty. It was my way of saying that Key does not deserve sympathy. In reality, he will probably do some time in Leavenworth, and be given a Dishonorable Discharge.
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Originally Posted by smooth
I googled around to try and find a single documented case of battlefield executions, but I couldn't find one. So maybe in Hollywood this happens, but I doubt it's something done in real life...unless the UCMJ also calls for executions without trials?
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Google Eddie Slovak. As memory serves, he was the last man put to death, by firing squad, following a courtmartial, for desertion. That was during WWII.