- Ricky Clousing
Sergeant Ricky Clousing (born 1982) is an interrogator for the
United States Army in the B Company of the313th Military Intelligence Battalion of the82nd Airborne Division . He served inIraq from December 2004 until April 2005 with the325th Airborne Infantry Regiment , during which time he witnessed what he describes as "abuse of power ... without accountability". [http://www.sdmcc.org/rickyclousing/?page_id=9] He left his barracks in June 2005 in protest of the Iraq war and remained absent without leave until going public with his anti-war position in a press conference on August 11, 2006 and then turning himself over to Military Police atFort Lewis , WA. [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060812/D8JEL6PO1.html] He is a member ofIraq Veterans Against the War . [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/14/18297184.php]Clousing's court-martial was held October 12, 2006. He was sentenced to 11 months in confinement for going
AWOL , but served 3 due to a pretrial agreement in which he pled guilty to the charges. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/us/13awol.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=us] He was also demoted to the rank of private, lost two-thirds of his pay for three months, and received a bad conduct discharge. [http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=244395] He served his sentence atCamp Lejeune in North Carolina and returned home on December 23, 2006.External links
* [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_re_us/awol_soldier Article regarding AWOL soldiers]
* [http://polizeros.com/2006/08/19/military-resister-ricky-clousing/ Politics in the Zero]
* [http://verbena-19.blogspot.com/2006/08/video-gi-war-resistance-grows-sgt.html Verbana19]
* [http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr005=251bhwyf11.app13a&page=NewsArticle&id=5490&news_iv_ctrl=12 Party for Socialism and Liberationa article]
* [http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/14/18297184.php IndyBay article]
* [http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/6021012p-5287376c.html Tacoma News Tribune article]
* [http://www.denymyfreedom.com/2006/08/11/76/ Deny My Freedom]
* [http://www.sdmcc.org/rickyclousing/ SDMCC: Ricky Clousing]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/us/13awol.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=us A Soldier Hoped to Do Good, but Was Changed by War]
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