Lol on the 'be forgiven' - forget that - Recruiters now all check into a database while signing people up and thats one of the flags. IF he had been UA less tha 30 days, he might be forgiven and given his old job back...

When I was in the navy, we had a guy go UA, we saw in on base 2 months later (Tenn. highway patrol got him) He was in "corrective custody" (base jail) doing grunt work. Left the base a few weeks later- not sure where he went (probably just a DD - dishonorable discharge. (which is really not the end of the world). His name will be on the "US-wide get-pulled-over" database. so I guess its possible that a po-dunk police officer might not know but...

Tell your UA friend to go back to the base he left and turn himself in now. He'll probably get a few weeks in CC, then discharged. Take the Big Chicken Dinner (bad conduct dischg.) and move on. Bad discharges are not the end of the world. (you can still go to school, get loans, get a job...)

...Way better than waiting 6 or 9 months, where you might get sent to levenworth if your old command really wants to throw the book at you.

-ex ET2/ss John

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