{"id":8077,"date":"2009-02-22T17:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2009-02-23T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:37:16","slug":"blue-falcon-in-green-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8077","title":{"rendered":"Blue Falcon in Green Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave Thul<\/a> sent us this article from AP<\/a> about Kristopher Walker, the poster boy of the Blue Falcons, but I like this article from the Green Bay Press Gazette<\/a> a little better;<\/p>\n

Spc. Kristoffer Walker, 28, was scheduled to board a flight at Austin Straubel International Airport in Ashwaubenon this morning to return to Atlanta, where he was scheduled to rejoin the 353rd Transportation Unit deployed to Iraq in October. Walker has been home on leave the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Nathan Banks, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said Walker did not follow military procedure by filling out paperwork to list himself as a conscientious objector.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis unit is counting on him,\u201d Banks said. \u201cHe\u2019s actually turning his back on his battle buddies. By just not reporting, you\u2019re letting down your teammates. When you raise your right hand to defend the country, you knew there was a time you could possibly be deployed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How’s he letting down his team mates? Well, leave is granted on a rotational basis – so one of the guys he works with won’t be able to go home and visit his or her family. That makes him a Blue Falcon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Walker did a tour in Iraq as an active duty soldier in 2004 and this tour he was sent with a transportation unit. He claims he’s not a conscientious objector because “the Army’s definition is a little different from mine”. Different in that Walker doesn’t believe war is immoral.<\/p>\n

According to the AP story;<\/p>\n

He said he now views the Iraq war as “an illegitimate, unnecessary campaign,” and he feels that by making him take part, the government broke the contract under which he agreed to defend the U.S.<\/p>\n

“I feel absolutely justified in doing what I’m doing now based on their breach of the initial contract,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t understand this at all. He was in Iraq during one of the toughest periods of that war in the toughest job in the Army. And now that he’s in transportation, he thinks the war is immoral and unjustified. He wasn’t even man enough to face the members of his unit to announce his intention to screw them;<\/p>\n

Walker said he sent e-mails this morning to his company sergeant and commanding officer in Iraq, but hasn\u2019t heard back from them. He said his wife received a text message from a member of Walker\u2019s unit in Iraq so he knows the unit is aware of his decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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UPDATED:<\/strong> Frankly Opinionated fixed the photo;<\/p>\n

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