{"id":35334,"date":"2013-04-29T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35334"},"modified":"2013-04-29T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:21:15","slug":"andre-shepherd-still-waiting-for-the-germans-to-make-up-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35334","title":{"rendered":"Andre Shepherd still waiting for the Germans to make up their minds"},"content":{"rendered":"

We first met Andre Shepherd in November 2007<\/a> when he deserted from the Army while he was stationed in Germany and preparing for a second deployment to Iraq. Of course, his story was that he was tired of killing Iraqis in his job as an Apache technician. Some of his workmates later came on the blog and told us that it was total bullshit. When they were in Iraq the first time he was so incompetent that they wouldn’t let him near an Apache and had him running the unit’s recreation area. So unless he was counting zombies in the video games his mates claimed he played all day long for his deployment, he didn’t see anyone killed, not did he participate in any activity that would result in anyone’s death.<\/p>\n

Another guy who knew Shepherd<\/a> before he joined the Army told us that Shepherd was living in his car and ripping off his friends. In the article today in the Stars & Stripes<\/a>, Shepherd says that among his hate mail he found a letter from the recruiter who put him in the Army expressing his personal regret. <\/p>\n

The real story, according to his fellow troops is that Shepherd has a german girlfriend and didn’t feel comfortable leaving her alone for a year during his deployment – the foundation of any good relationship. But he’s still living in Germany and although the government decided to boot him out back in 2011<\/a>, he’s still living there awaiting an appeal of the decision;<\/p>\n

His personal life has settled in the meantime. Married to a German, finishing his education and working in an office outside Munich, Shepherd has come a long way from his life before the Army when, after failed efforts at school and work, he lived for a time out of the back of his car.<\/p>\n

His attorney believes his current circumstances mean he\u2019s unlikely to face deportation, even if he fails to win his case for political asylum.<\/p>\n

In an interview earlier this year, the 35-year-old said, despite a lengthy case with little sign of resolution, he doesn\u2019t regret his decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find this to be a really great adventure,\u201d Shepherd said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, treachery is just a great adventure. I hope he chokes on it. Oh, by the way, as if it needed to be said, IVAW’s European branch<\/a> supported him for a while;<\/p>\n

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