Tent City to hold AWOL soldiers

[Robbien]

Source: The Arizona Republic

AWOL soldiers are being sent to Maricopa County's Tent City Jail because Fort Huachuca doesn't have a facility that can confine inmates for long periods of time, said Tanja Linton, public affairs spokesperson for Fort Huachuca. Military officials also hope that the AWOL soldiers' experiences in Tent City will be close to the living accommodations of soldiers in Iraq.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made the announcement about the deal on the grounds of the outdoor desert jail Tuesday afternoon. Arpaio stood next to the first AWOL inmate taken into Tent City.
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Because Tent City is a federally approved confinement facility, Arizona Statute requires that the jail accept military. Petrenko makes the decision on where to send the inmates.

"We're ready to accept as many as he (Petrenko) wants," Arpaio said. Numerous other confinement facilities across the nation have also jailed military offenders


Read more: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/64228.php

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Holding prisoners in tents. Huh?

[truthisfreedom]

1. Hmm. Someone needs to submit a FOIA to get the numbers on how many AWOLers there are.

We need to compare this war to Vietnam.

[Tom Joad]

2. May the tents be overwhelmed and overflowing with awol soldiers.

any soldiers out there? I urge you to consider this option.
You are best hope of stopping this insane war.

[babylonsister]

3. Is this the absolute worst place they could find?

Could be.

[noel adamson]

4. Heroes of the Iraq invasion and occupation war?

[TomInTib]

6. "Heroes"?

"Lance Thompson, 18, went AWOL from Fort Huachuca training camp in Sierra Vista for over 150 days because of what he said were financial difficulties.
He turned himself in at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Thompson was then transferred back to Fort Huachuca and convicted of being AWOL. He was sentenced to 27 days in Tent City.
"I'm supposed to be a soldier out protecting people and helping people, and I'm cleaning toilets," Thompson said of his stay in Tent City. Thompson is hoping to re-enlist in the Army once he has completed his sentence. Thompson, who choked back tears when he talked to the media, said the experience has been eye opening."


"Idiot" is more like it.

[TomInTib]

5. We're talking about a bunch of screwed-up kids, here.

"Lance Thompson, 18, went AWOL from Fort Huachuca training camp in Sierra Vista for over 150 days because of what he said were financial difficulties.
He turned himself in at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Thompson was then transferred back to Fort Huachuca and convicted of being AWOL. He was sentenced to 27 days in Tent City.
"I'm supposed to be a soldier out protecting people and helping people, and I'm cleaning toilets," Thompson said of his stay in Tent City. Thompson is hoping to re-enlist in the Army once he has completed his sentence. Thompson, who choked back tears when he talked to the media, said the experience has been eye opening."


Clueless.

Yeah, that's it.

Go AWOL and then re-enlist. You're fucking eighteen years old, idiot.

[catnhatnh]

8. 172lb screwed up kids and a full ton of bullshit....

I picked my troop weight carefully....172 is the weight both my prior 200 lb ass came out of basic training in 72, as well as the weight my cousin/enlistment buddy whom started basic at 154lbs departed....That said the real answer is that the army has chosen to humiliate kids using Joe Arpaio (sp) who has specialized in humiliation....
Ain't nobody here scared by the heat-just those immature or maturing to the fact the war is a scam.....The meme here is that "heat" scares them-not death for no cause other than the plan of oil thieves....I was in the stockade for 3 months after real combat vets told me how much better that was than dying...I was never afraid of jungles or being wet...just being lied to and killed.

[TomInTib]

11. Wow! I gotta save this!

So disjointed and so well put, none the less.

Whatever, you done right.

[KansDem]

7. "Fort Bush" would make an appropriate name...

For some strange reason, it just popped into my mind when I saw the phrase "AWOL"

[Doctor_J]

9. That's that Gingrinch-worshipping nut.

I thought that was a state prison.

[Roy]

10. The story should be about this sheriff Arpaio

Looks like they found a way to funnel some money to this right wing nut job.

He probably won't make them wear pink underwear though, how does blue sound, maybe a nice pastel.
He is about using his power to humiliate and give the wingnuts someone to look down upon and nothing more .