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[Stick]

Today, April 15th our youngest son, Jordan was to report to Afghanistan for duty in a transportation unit BUT (there's that word again) we found out just three days ago that he's staying right here in the good ol' "Red, White, and Blue!"

[revwardoc]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...gqelgD9F3300G1

Army doc, birther refuses to go to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON — An Army doctor is under investigation after questioning on YouTube whether President Barack Obama is U.S.-born — then disobeying orders to report for duty in Afghanistan.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin failed to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., on Monday, showing up instead at his old job in a clinic in the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an Army spokesman, said Wednesday. Lakin was reassigned immediately to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington while the investigation is under way.

Though officials in Hawaii verify that Obama was born there, so-called birthers claim he was born outside the United States and is ineligible to be president. Lakin says he wants to see the birth certificate as proof Obama is his commander in chief and thus that the deployment order for Afghanistan is legal.

Lakin is under investigation for his failure to report for deployment and for conduct unbecoming an officer.

A Greeley, Colo., native, Lakin said in a video posted on YouTube that he was an 18-year Army veteran "choosing to disobey" orders he says are illegal, including an order to deploy to Afghanistan for a second tour. He said he was doing so at "great peril" to his career and future and "inviting my own court-martial."

A court-martial is only one of the punishment options, and among the handful of other known birthers in the military, some have merely received administrative reprimands.

On Monday, Lakin showed up for his job as a flight surgeon at the Pentagon clinic that is attached to a Walter Reed medical brigade, Garver said. His commander, Col. Gordon Roberts, summoned him to Walter Reed and told him he was being reassigned.

Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she's seen vital records that prove Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen. But the state said last month it was still getting between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama's birth each week, most from outside Hawaii.

A few of the requesters continue to pepper the state Health Department with the same letters seeking the same information, even after they're told state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest. Responding wastes time and money, officials have said.

Both Fukino and the state registrar of vital statistics have verified that the Health Department holds Obama's original birth certificate.

[DMZ-LT]

John , I know you are relieved , tell Jordan Thanks for his service. Got me thinking how my parents must have felt when I told them I had voluntered for Vietnam. My Mom , like you , was strong in her faith of the Lord so I am sure she put her faith in Him and told me to do so to. I never told them about what I was doing in letters home and never talked about what I had done when I got home. Taken me 36 years or so but I am starting to listen to her again. Prayers out for all our armed service people

[1CAVCCO15MED]

I'm glad you can relax. It is especially hard for someone who has been to war to send a son. I can't even imagine.

[Boats]

LT - I think all Mom's are alike in many ways. Though weren't especially close she worried about both her Son's who were doing VN duty. She died before Larry (who died of complications to agent orange) I know this would have bothered her greatly.

Stick I'm happy for you and Jordan - but lets also remember the military can flip flop in a heart beat - so let's stay and think positive.

1CAVCCO15MED - Most Dad's don't ever say that much - at least mine didn't about my service though I did hear through the grape vine that he would talk about me being in to his friends.

[5thgrpguy]

Gents,

I can recall my Dad, a WWII vet telling me he hoped I never had to experience war..1966-Off I went to Viet Nam...Made the same statement to my son and off he went to Grenada...I'm sure my Grand dad had the same comment to my Dad......I have two grandsons rapidly approaching the enlistment age...It just seems like it is a never ending cycle...God Bless the young men and women of our military services....

Ron P.