What's the first reason you wouldn't hesitate even for a second to go AWOL?

*captain shows up 5 minutes late to work* Everyone: “hello, private.”

Take a shot every time you hear: forfeiture of all pay and allowances, reduction to the lowest rank and confinement

U.S. Military: “prides themselves as being volunteer based” Also U.S. Military: “You can never leave!”

A friend of my dads went AWOL after being drafted during Vietnam and he was originally sentenced to a fate worse then death: a life time sentence to being Canadian, but was later pardoned.

When your WiFi crashes and you can't get back in game.

Am I high or did he just say the same thing over and over again for 6 mins

When I was a kid I thought going AWOL meant going crazy

I’m a Retired USAF NCO. If you're late for work just stop and buy donuts and say the line was long. Problem solved. Not that I ever did that.

As a U.S Army soldier I can confirm that there is in fact a random 5 star general who roams around each base looking for people and taking money.

"Do you think you'd ever desert the military?" **every military member stays silent**

I'm getting recommended this after the Iran drone strike....

This must have been the longest 6 minutes of my life.

"Do you think you will EVER desert the military?" Trick question HA you almost got us FBI agent

Girls: I'm pregnant Military dads: aight Imma go AWOL

"A new volunteer is never far away." As an active duty servicemember, this speaks volumes.

In 1999 I was an Army Captain and Company Commander stationed at Fort Hood, TX. I had a soldier go AWOL and never returned (deserted). Fast forward to 2011. I am now a Lieutenant Colonel and am stationed in Korea. One morning I get a call from a JAG officer from the States asked if I remembered the soldier who had deserted back in 1999. I sat back in my chair and told the JAG officer that I remembered the soldier VERY well. The soldier was stopped by the police in Alabama for expired tags and was subsequently identified as having deserted the Army in 1999. The JAG officer told me to be prepared to testify at his court martial. I didn't have to. I never learned the outcome of the soldier's court martial.

"Generous amount of pay" yeah ok. Still waiting for my generous amount of pay

How many times am I gonna hear “reduction to the lowest rank”

This video is very accurate. One thing I will tell you is that the Navy and Marine Corps is even more strict on punishments than the Army most of the time. My last command was a joint command. We had servicemembers of all 5 branches (Space Force did not exist when I left). There were some who would repeatedly show up late. The soldiers were often given extra duty and PT. The sailors and marines were warned the first time and given severe PT and extra duty. The 2nd time they were late they faced the Commanding Officer, who would either discharge them from the military or (if she was feeling generous), would take their rank, 1/2 month's pay for 45 days, 30 days restriction and 45 days of extra duty. If a sailor or marine was dumb enough to be late a third time, they were gone.

I like how all of these military videos are being recommended now

If being late to formation is AWOL, boy I was AWOL a lot

Girlfriend: are u gunna pay for my food? Me: Alght ima go AWOL

A key point is, if you are not present at your prescribed time and place, you are considered an FTR (Failure to Report). 24 hours after the exact time of FTR, if you are not found or if you don’t return you are declared as AWOL. 30 days after, you’re designated to be a deserter and you are DFR’d (dropped from rolls(payroll)). Just come clarification :)

Video: Gets recommended in time for WW3 Coincidence? I think not

When you go AWOL and get recaptured you get sent to Tarkov to fight.

Retired Air Force of 21 years. My early years I was a wild child and had a knack for oversleeping. I would get a talking to and a letter of counceling. The worst was that it affected my annual performance report early on which delayed a promotion. I made up for it later, but this behavior of mine was common to younger airmen who just slept through the alarm clock. When I got older and was " in charge" I was sympathetic to most and spoke to them in a friendly manner. That method of leadership worked for me rather than being a tyrant. Basically same treatment as any civilian job. Sometimes though the airmen just were not cut out for the military lifestyle and in reality were not successful while being on the outside either. Some people are just lazy, non conformists, and just plain negative. Just look around you. There are all kinds.

"Great medical benefits" having served myself I can tell you the medical we receive is very lack luster and often times barely any at all

USA: yes we let people volunteer for the armed forces Draft: are you challenging me?

"US military prides itself as an all volunteer force" Vietnam War: "And the unlucky draftees are...!"

And That Is Why YOU READ CONTRACTS PEOPLE

if i was drafted to a combat zone, i could totally see desertion being an option

As a former soldier, this seemed to miss the fact that very few desertions are actually pursued. The military usually just waits for them to show up somewhere or get pulled over for a speeding ticket.

Bruh imagine in Battlefield or COD if you didn't login for a day "Reduction to the lowest rank, 2/3 experience gain cut, 1 week military prison"

If I went in as a chef I'd imagine I'd be doing a lot of deserting.

Pentagon had this made just to see who would answer “yes” to deserting lol

A close relative of mine went AWOL, to his father's horror and whole family's utter dismay and confusion. It turned out he'd had a psychotic break and, thankfully, was properly diagnosed, and given an honorable discharge and treatment instead of punishment. He remained patriotic and proud of his service, however limited, to the day he died.

*I WAS A DESERTER IN THE BOY SCOUTS.I WENT AWOL DURING A KNOT TYING CONTEST.😠*

"American soldiers enjoy great medical benefits"? You and I live on different planets.

I don’t like how youtube is recommending this so close to WW3

Here come the “Did any one get this recommended all of a sudden” comments

'would you ever desert the military?' hah! nice try NSA!

I would never desert the US military. Greetings from Europe.

Our friend circle in my early 20s had an acquaintance that deserted the Army after a couple months out of basic training, I barely knew the guy but I think nothing even ended up happening to him

My dad went AWOL once in Vietnam. It was during he took a few extra days of vacation he got a pay deduction

Donald trump is going to build AWOL

I have a few family members who served in the military (my grandfathers, great-aunt, and uncle), but I'm not sure the question of whether or not I'd go AWOL would even apply to me. I remember getting a call from the Armed Forces when I turned 18, asking if I'd participate in a phone survey. I did, and was asked questions about each of the five branches. Then, as the final question, they asked me for my height and weight. I answered honestly, and there was a pause on the other end of the line, followed by, "......Do you have any friends who'd be interested in joining?"

The reality of things is that every branch does it differently. I was army. I was awol for 35 days. I was never in jail. I was sent to a unit that was for awol soldiers. There was a guy there tha was awol for over 15 years. We were there long enough to be processed out with an other than honorable discharge. We were given the option to stay in or discharge. It wasn’t even really that severe. We basically cleaned up the base for a month and partied with the females on the second floor of our housing

John overslept *That enraged his general who punished him severely Reduction to lowest rank*

My dad went awol when i was born

My cousin just went AWOL he refused to deploy out to Iran

When I served in the USMC back in the 90s. I had one guy who went AWOL back home to W. Virginia. Met him on Facebook in 2012. All they did was mail him a general discharge with VA benefits. Over 90 percent of the time, Uncle Sam isn't going to stress on pursuing, like the video said.

1:30 that belt is going to bring awful memories for some

I personally know a soldier who went AWOL. We got back from Iraq in 2005 i honorably ETSd out of the Army, he still have a year left of his 4 year enlistment. He was stop lossed in 2006 to go back 3 months shy of his ETS date he lost it and went AWOL and went completely off the grid, he was an outdoors Survivalist. It’s been 14 years and to my knowledge still has not been found

I remember being assigned to cleaning out storage units on base during training session. One storage unit had nothing but peoples belongings who were in trouble. A number of high ranking uniforms were in it too.

Before my first tour of Iraq, a female Soldier fled to avoid deployment. She came back shortly before we returned. The Rear Detachment Commander gave her a lot of extra duty, and non-judicial punishment, because she returned. She actually missed two deployments, as I deployed with another unit (she was supposed to deploy in my group), and then she missed deploying with our actual home unit. About 99% of the unit wanted her kicked out, with a Bad Conduct discharge, or locked up. (or all three)

When I was in Korea we had one go AWOL, he was caught like 4 days later at his parents place in the states but took about a month to get him back to korea to be discharged. So for a whole month when the platoon sergeants gave their morning reports before PT you would hear "39 present, 2 sick call, 1 AWOL" which always made me laugh

Me missing my medical appointment: Military: Allow us to introduce the death punishment

Yes, these punishments are all possibilities for being AWOL. However, Jail time and Discharges are rare. Typically, on your first offense, as long as you return before the 30 day limit, you would normally get to stand before the Commanding Officer and your punishment would be reduction in rank one pay grade, loss of pay for up to 45 days and on base restriction or in the case of the US Navy, restriction to the ship.

All the recommendation in KZfaq are now about "Getting Drafted" , "World War" and now this XD... Sure KZfaq algorithm knows what's up

Us militarily: “oh so you volunteered” “Yea but I don’t want to do this anymore” Us military: “haha, enjoy prison” Edit: ok, I just checked this, to the people getting annoyed at me, it was a joke, relax.

I would never desert the military, because you can't desert what you're not in. Edit: Wow. This comment blew up. Interesting to see what everyone thinks.

I've always wondered. What happens if someone is said to be awol but they were kidnapped? And were kidnapped the entire time?

It varies from command to command depending on the severity most likely you’ll get a deduction of rank (example being a E-4 to E-3) and extra duty. But that’s in garrison, if deployed then the punishment is much more severe. (Prior Marine, Current Army).

Everyone who goes awol: Ight imma head out

Whenever I have to leave an online game, this is how it feels.

That last part there reminds me so much of my navy boot camp where my division commander told people in my division that they are completely replaceable and they’re wasting space

Thanks for the tip it’s really useful now in this time

i went awol in the navy for family reasons came back after a month and pretty much got grounded for a 30 days and half months pay x2 wasent all that bad

When I went from sub school to the boat, I applied for thirty days of leave. The leave extended my report date, and the new report date never made it to the command. They thought I was AWOL, but never took the initiative to try and contact me. When I got to the command, they tried really hard to mast me, but my leave chit and orders in hand reflected that I was actually there a week early, so I thought I was ok, but the authority within the command continuously did whatever they could to make sure that I never make rank again, and succeeded. I spent seven and a half years as an E4, even though by the time I got out I had fourteen collateral duties and was being tracked on Chief of the Watch as an E4. The moral of the story is; the Navy will make mistakes, no matter what, and you will be the one to pay for them, even if it doesn't reflect on paper.

I could only think of one situation where I might desert if I find myself in the military, and it’s one I’m sure few would fault me for: if I’m ordered to commit a war crime, and even then only if there was no other way I could avoid having to go through with it (i.e. faking illness). The Nuremberg Defense (“just following orders”) doesn’t hold up in court even if the alternative is being shot by your own side for refusing, after all.

A friend of mine did a couple stints in the brig. He told me that all the time he spent in there, did not count against his enlistment and had effectively stopped counting down. So she he was released, he still had the enlistment to finish. I laughed when he told me this; he was a lifer, well over 20 years service and 3-tours in Vietnam (they caught him during his third tour, and made him leave the country.)

When you see too many unoriginal comments: *ight imma head out*

I didn't know the US military sold itself as a "volunteer" organization so I think its important to note a few things here. 1. Oftentimes members who join the military are fresh out of high school, basically still children, and don't fully understand what they are signing up for. 2. The definition of "volunteer" is: a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task. So, if you volunteer to serve in the military, but circumstances change and you are no longer willing to serve, but are forced to stay because of laws, you are no longer a volunteer, because you are not working of your own volition (I'll ignore the pay aspect of volunteerism for now even though it does still break the definition for volunteer, because this is in the soldiers favor and its not unheard of for volunteers to be compensated anyways.). This is more in line with indentured servitude, where one signs a contract and agrees to serve for X amount of years (and indeed, by my understanding most soldiers when enlisted do sign exactly some contract of this form). Its also generally understood to be important for someone who is volunteering to fully understand exactly what they are getting into, and there are many cases of recruiters lying to people, including high school students, in order to manipulate them into joining the military. Its certainly not every case, but the fact that it happens at all is appalling. So basically, if you are signing into the military know full well that what you are getting into is NOT a volunteer organization. They can sell it like that as much as they want, but at the end of the day it is much closer to indentured servitude.

I knew a guy that went AWOL while I was in the Navy, he went AWOL so he can go to a chocolate festival in Chicago and ended up getting jumped and robbed before he got there so he came back.

I love how he says voluntary, then proceeded to name off all the severe punishments should you want to quit. Land of the free.

In Germany we don't call this AWOL, we say “FAHNENFLUCHT HOHLT DAS G3“ and i think thats beautiful

Love your video my teacher let us watch you in class if we are not doing Anything

"I'm just here so I dont get fined"

I was in from 2003 to 2011 and loved it.

Great after care benefits.... I know some homeless vets that would disagree

I have a story about an AWOL soldier who left for 9 years. The year is 2010, I arrive at my unit in Fort Hood. After a few weeks of meeting people, I met Franco (the AWOL soldier). Everyone knew him in our unit because he was facing Court Marshall for being AWOL. Franco was there six months prior to me arriving and was there roughly a year more before he was seen by the Court. In a crazy twist of events, Franco's case gets thrown out because our unit took to long to process his UCMJ paperwork. In Renturn Franco gets back pay from the Army, has to stay and complete his contract but gets discharged for failing multiple PT Test. I think the last one he passed was back in 2000.

When I was in the military one of my close friends was AWOL for a day and when he got back we found out it was all because his grandma.

3:07 there's so many things wrong about how he's cleaning that weapon

When the general doesn’t show up for a meeting. Next day:“hello private”

I'm gonna keep it real with you U.S military, I ain't going to die for no oil company

“Do you think you’d ever desert the military” I’m not falling for it

Bruh why is this now being recommended to me

I went AWOL many times in the middle of combat. You ever join mid game and your team is getting decimated?

1:30 We get a belt for 20 days? Heck yeah, I’ve always needed to have my own belt! Sign me up so I can leave immediately!

World: _Start WWIII_ *[KZfaq RECOMMENDATION]:*

I needed this now more than ever

1:39 Favorite quote: "...Military court marshal, which is the _same_ as civilian court with some *notable exemptions* "

He forgot to mention that there is no statute of limitations on desertion. In the mid-eighties, the Navy decided that it was best to send deserters back to the command from which they deserted to get adjudicated. I was on my first ship in 1985 when the Shore Patrol delivered up a guy who deserted in 1972. He had ticked off his mother-in-law and she turned him in. We didn't have anywhere to keep him so he was "confined" to the ship, but as soon as he could, he shimmied down a mooring line was never seen again.

All this time +The Infographics Show is been preparing us for WWIII

>US drops some hot ones on Iranian general >this vid shows up on recommended

I’m in the military and in the navy we call it Unauthorized Absence (UA)

"Would you ever desert in the army?" Bold of you to assume that the majority of people would ever want to join.

Military life wasn't my thing, but I enjoyed the 3 years I did. I met some great people who I can regard as friends for life. The Military Isn't as intimidating as it seems, that was one of my biggest misconceptions when I went in. Once I left my first unit I was sure I didn't want to resign, those dude were the best.

It depends on when you do it, if you do it when you're actually in they just put out a warrant for you. So at some point you'll be getting a ticket and the cop will run you and you'll end up getting shipped back to your unit. People have gone years without anybody noticing and just turned themselves in because of guilt. Or instantly ended up back at base, it just depends on you. If you go AWOL in basic training they just write up some paperwork and kick you out, i don't think you even need to be caught. My Drills used to give people directions how to run away from Fort Benning.