Soldier pleads guilty to going AWOL
FORT HOOD, Texas – A soldier who fled before his second deployment to Iraq pleaded guilty Thursday to desertion as part of a plea deal that will send him to military prison for less than a year. “I quit the Army, I quit my unit, and I did not show up when I needed to,” Spc. Mark Wilkerson told a military judge during his sentencing hearing. As part of his plea bargain, the judge will sentence Wilkerson to no more than 10 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to desertion and missing troop movement, Wilkerson’s lawyer Michael J. Duncan said.
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