PA National Guard Recruit Is AWOL

17 Years old, this girl is 17 years old, has not even been trained in warfare, and they want to send her to Iraq, Looks like there sending your babies now America welcome to the Bush War, How old are the Bush girls,

Jul 7, 2005 1:41 pm
US/EasternNORTHAMPTON, PA (AP)

A recent high school graduate who alleged that she was recruited into the National Guard through deceptive practices did not appear for her entry training Wednesday and now is considered absent without leave, officials said.Guard officials said they will seek a warrant from a district judge to force Jessica Faustner, 18, of Bath, to go to training at Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County.

“We will pursue this pretty strongly,”’ said Lt. Col. Chris Cleaver, spokesman for the Pennsylvania National Guard.

“We just want soldiers fulfilling their requirements.”Faustner’s mother, Joan Koberly, said her daughter had been attending the monthly drill weekends at the Allentown National Guard Armory but stopped in April on the advice of her lawyer, John Roberts.Roberts said Thursday that a recruiter had told Faustner that the Army National Guard would send her to nursing school after basic training, but instead her unit had been told it had a 90-percent chance of going to Iraq.

“A 17-year-old girl should be thinking about her prom and her graduation, not about going to Iraq. She was just misled all the way around. She’s not real sophisticated,” said Roberts, who said his client was recruited at Northampton Area High School about six months ago.

He said the recruiter did not give her and her parents complete information, and therefore wants the Guard to release her from the commitment.“She’s not around,” Roberts said.

“She’s prepared to go to jail, if that’s what they want.”Cleaver said Faustner’s charges were taken “very seriously” and a staff judge advocate investigated, but none of the allegations could be substantiated.

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