Some very troubling news from the
Stars and Stripes:
Stars and Stripes:
Vet Mistakenly Declared AWOL Arrested, Jailed
February 11, 2012
A short quote:
WASHINGTON -- Louie Castro is a 28-year-old religion major at Florida State University who should have started the final semester of his senior year last month. Instead, he spent 12 days in jail after being arrested at Miami International Airport because of an administrative error the Army apparently made when he left the service more than nine years ago.
The Army considered him absent without leave.
He enlisted in the Army when he was 17 and left with an other-than-honorable discharge less than 2 years later.
[A civilian lawyer representing the arrested veteran] said conversations with Fort Carson officials indicate that many others have been arrested on similar warrants and that potentially hundreds of other former soldiers once based at Fort Hood could be unaware that warrants are out on them, ticking time bombs in their official government files because of clerical mistakes by military personnel officers.