Student trying to avoid return to the Army
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — When Drew Sleezer left the Army in 2005, he thought it was for good.
After a year of combat duty in Afghanistan, Sleezer came home and enrolled at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
Now the Army wants the 22-year-old back. But Sleezer, who served two six-month tours of duty, doesn’t want to go.
He has applied for a college deferral to avoid fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, wars in which he says he no longer believes.
“I believe I did my job honorably the first time. I have served two tours in a combat zone,” said Sleezer, a native of the Chicago suburb Darien.
The Army sent Sleezer a letter in late 2006 telling him he would have to report for active duty later this year. The college deferral decision lies with a regional human resources commander in St. Louis, said Army Maj. Anne Edgecomb said, who declined to comment on Sleezer’s case.
People who enlist in the Army commit themselves to eight years of potential service, up to six of which extend beyond their initial period of active duty. Sleezer still has several years to go.
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