GI accused of having self shot to avoid Iraq redeployment

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U.S. Army combat veteran on leave from a unit headed back to Iraq (news - web sites) arranged for a friend to shoot him in the leg in an attempt to avoid returning to the war, Philadelphia police said Thursday.

Spec. Marquise Roberts, 23, told police he had been shot Tuesday afternoon as he walked past two men who were arguing on the street. But police said their investigation found that Roberts was shot once in the leg by a friend using a handgun as part of a scheme to avoid returning to Iraq.


Roberts, who served seven months in Iraq during the U.S. invasion in 2003, was to report back to Ft. Stewart, Ga., on Wednesday, police said. He is a supply specialist with the 3rd Infantry Division, according to commanders at Ft. Stewart.


The division has been ordered to begin returning to Iraq next month. Roberts returned from Iraq in midsummer.

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This guy must have been listening to his commander in chief:

"I'm saying to myself, 'What do I want to do?' I think I don't want to be an infantry guy as a private in Vietnam. What I do decide to want to do is learn to fly."

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 1989


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"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."

Dallas Morning News, Feb. 25, 1990


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"I don't want to play like I was somebody out there marching when I wasn't. It was either Canada or the service. ... Somebody said the Guard was looking for pilots. All I know is, there weren't that many people trying to be pilots."

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov. 29, 1998