Der Feldwebel Travis Bishop wurde am 13. August 2009 wegen Unerlaubter Abwesenheit, Befehlsverweigerung und Verpassen der Verlegung der Einheit zu einem Jahr Haft verurteilt. Er ist der zweite Soldat aus Fort Hood, der wegen seiner Auffassung, dass die Besatzung in Afghanistan „illegal“ ist, bestraft wurde.

Sergeant Travis Bishop, with the US Army’s 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, pled not guilty at a special court martial on Thursday to two counts of missing movement, disobeying a lawful order and going absent without leave (AWOL). Friday, in a trial full of theatrics from the jury, prosecution witnesses and the prosecution, he was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to 12 months in a military jail.

Army Spc. Victor Agosto was court-martialed and convicted Wednesday, August 5, at Fort Hood, Texas for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. He was sentenced to only 30 days in incarceration.

Chris Capps-Schubert war beteiligt an der Operation Iraqi Freedom 2005-2006, desertierte aus der US-Armee, ist Regionalkoordinator für Europa der Iraq Veterans Against the War (Irakveteranen gegen den Krieg) und Mitglied der DFG-VK. Wir dokumentieren seinen Solidaritätsgruß für eine Demonstration vor der U.S. Army Airfield Wiesbaden.

The importance of having a demonstration in front of this base cannot be understated. This airbase in Wiesbaden is supposed to be the future home of the US Army´s 5th corps, this is the US Army unit that was in charge of most other units in the invasion of Iraq during the push from Kuwait to Baghdad. It along with 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was put in charge of 7/8ths of the other units in Kuwait under the name Combined Joint Task Force 7.