Army increasingly allows soldiers charged with violent crimes to leave military rather than face trial https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041023_soldiers_crimes/army-increasingly-allows-soldiers-charged-with-violent-crimes-leave-military-rather-than-face-trial/
A long-standing but little-known practice that permits service members facing criminal charges to circumvent trial by being discharged from the military - and though a federal watchdog agency in 1978 called for abolishing the practice, it remains in place nearly 50 years later.
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