Conscientious Objector Faces Court-Martial
>"On March 6, the court-martial will begin in Germany for Army Specialist AugustÃn Aguayo, who faces up to seven years in prison for refusing to deploy to Iraq for a second tour of duty.
Before his first deployment to Iraq, he began to train in arms, Aguayo had great difficulty firing at human-shaped silhouettes and stabbing human mannequins. "I felt guilty when I had to pick up and hold a weapon and practice killing with it."
Rather than court-martialing Aguayo, Army personnel told him he would be going to Iraq anyway, even if they had to handcuff him and shackle him to the plane.
On September 1, 2006, Aguayo went AWOL and missed his unit's deployment to Iraq. He turned himself in to the Army the following day.
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