USATODAY.com - Decades later, Marines hunt Vietnam-era deserters: "However, the Marine official in charge of bringing in deserters said after Conti's arrest that his office was being more aggressive.Deserters, schmerters. Find someone who has inflicted damage on this country not someone who objected to killing people in the first place.
Chief Warrant Officer James Averhart, who has commanded the Marine Corps Absentee Collection Center since September 2004, told the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times that he had ordered cold cases reopened and that his squad had caught 27 deserters in his first 11 months on the job, a rate he suggested was higher than those of his predecessors. The Corps last month updated that number to 33 cases.
'I have a different leadership style than the guys who have had this job. My job is to catch deserters. And that's what I do,' Averhart told the newspaper."
Where the hell are our priorities?
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