You clicked the wrong link perfessor, the hypothetical forum is somewhere else.
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The funny thing about them, Albed, is that if given the choice to fight or not a soldier would always choose to fight.
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Maybe you inadvertantly left out the word "hypothetically".
http://www.25thaviation.org/id275.htm
Before the Normandy invasion ("D" Day, 1944) the US Army (In WW II the US Army included the Army Air Corps which today has become the US Airforce) in England filled its own jails with American soldiers who refused to fight
During WW II, in the European Theater alone, over 20,000 US Military men were convicted of dissertation
Only about 5,000 men assigned to Vietnam deserted and just 249 of those deserted while in Vietnam.
http://home.mweb.co.za/re/redcap/vietcrim.htm
"These battle-weary troops from the 1st Air Cav had just staged a "combat refusal" at the PACE firebase.
http://www.af-north.org/harass_the_brass.htm
Soldiers went on "search and avoid" missions, intentionally skirting clashes with the Vietnamese
http://www.troho.com/issues/2004-03-...ingwisdom.html
U.S. army private Jeremy Hinzman, a veteran of Afghanistan who considers himself a patriot, refused to go to Iraq when called
If he returns to the United States, Pvt. Hinzman could be prosecuted as a deserter
http://www.notinourname.net/funk/
In a significant victory, a military jury acquitted Marine Stephen Funk, Iraq War resister, of "desertion" on September 6, 2003. However, they then convicted him of the lesser charge of "unauthorized absence"
Squirm some more liar.
