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    Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning...
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  • Look up desertion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Desertion is the abandonment of a duty or post in the military without permission. Desertion may also...
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  • Mate desertion occurs when one or both parents abandon their current offspring, and thereby reduce or stop providing parental care. Often, by deserting...
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    "The Circus Animals' Desertion" is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in Last Poems in 1939. While the original composition date of the poem is...
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  • Desertion is a 2005 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing. There is, as you can see, an I in this...
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  • Eddie Slovik (category People executed for desertion)
    1945) was an American soldier who was court-martialed and executed for desertion during World War II. He was the first and only US serviceman to have met...
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  • Divorce (redirect from Desertion (divorce))
    grounds for a divorce which a party could raise and need to prove included desertion abandonment (typically 1 year) cruelty habitual drunkenness drug addiction...
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    the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Gurnah was awarded...
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    help with desertion. In January the following year, there were 284. Approximately two thirds of those who have deserted left Russia. Desertion rates have...
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  • Problem is, they will have to scour the city first to do so. 35 19 "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1" Earl Kress October 21, 1985 (1985-10-21) 700–36...
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  • The Gulf Breeze Six incident refers to the desertion of six military intelligence analysts from the American 701st Military Intelligence Brigade who got...
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    World War II. By 1966, the desertion rate was 8.43 per thousand, which markedly increased to 33.9 per thousand in 1971. Desertion in Japan was considered...
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    In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace...
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    military law, which defines a wide range of cowardly offenses, including desertion in face of the enemy and surrendering to the enemy against orders. The...
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    British Army and Commonwealth soldiers executed after courts-martial for desertion and other capital offences during World War I. The memorial is to servicemen...
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  • to desertion". CNA (TV network). September 21, 2024. Yousif, Nadine (September 20, 2024). "US soldier who fled to North Korea sentenced for desertion"....
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  • responded by passing the Mutiny Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 5). This act made desertion, mutiny, and sedition of officers and soldiers crimes triable by court-martial...
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  • Willi Jutzi (2 September 1913 in Saarpfaltz, Bavaria – July 1941, in Värmland, Sweden) was a German soldier during World War II stationed in Gardermoen...
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    period of morale collapse, and disobedience.: 349–350 : 166–175  At home, desertion rates quadrupled from 1966 levels. Among the enlisted, only 2.5% chose...
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    Herbert Burden (category People executed for desertion)
    regiment with whom he had served in 1913—but he was arrested and accused of desertion. Found guilty, he was executed by firing squad two days later aged 17...
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  • death was ruled a homicide. On February 20, 2020, Lori was arrested for desertion and non-support of her children. On June 9, police discovered the remains...
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  • Camilo Mejía (category People convicted of desertion)
    during the Iraq War on conscientious objector grounds, was convicted of desertion and went on to become an anti-war activist. Mejía is a graduate of the...
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    Charles Robert Jenkins (category People convicted of desertion)
    delivered to Jenkins' family in 1997—their first sight of Jenkins since his desertion. Jenkins' last North Korean film was in 2000, about the communists' capture...
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    investigation by the Ukrainian SBI to determine who is responsible for the desertions. As a result, the brigade commander, Colonel Dmytro Ryumshin, was removed...
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  • Kamptin 1854 Theft and desertion 14 years James McGrath 1827 Rangoon 1857 Desertion 14 years Denis McInerney 1824 Rangoon 1857 Desertion and stealing 14 years...
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  • and is the author of several non-fiction and fiction books, including Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam (2001), a memoir of his resistance to the war...
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    The Divorce (Insanity and Desertion) Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 54) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that modified the law relating...
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  • and World War II. 25 occurred during World War I for charges such as desertion or cowardice: 23 were posthumously pardoned on 16 August 2006, while the...
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    military popular forms of resistance included combat refusals, fragging, and desertion. By the end of the war at least 450 officers were killed in fraggings...
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    devastated Iraq's power grid and communications network and resulted in the desertion of about 100,000 Iraqi soldiers. In retaliation, Iraq launched Scud missiles...
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