Thread: AWOL Sailor?
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Old 08-10-2008, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Skippy View Post

The chances of him being allowed to join another branch are currently zero. If he turns himself in and takes the discharge, there is a very very very small chance (call it one in ten thousand) that he may be able to get into the Army, since they appear to take pretty much anybody right now.
In real life the AWOL turns into desertion if you attempt to join another branch before being released from the branch you are assigned, at least according to the UCMJ. And no the Army will not take anyone with an OTH discharge, I wonder where you conjure these facts.
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