Hinzman obeyed what he was taught during his basic training

Spc. Jeremy Hinzman of Rapid City is probably going to be the first deserter to face the Canadian refugee board. In January 2001, he joined the military and was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. He always wanted a career in military but over time, it was not to be.

Hinzman recalls that while he was walking to chow hall with his unit, all were repeatedly yelling ‘Train to kill, kill we will’. He then felt that he had made a wrong career choice. But still, he was not willing to get out of the army. He said that he was totally committed to fulfill his bond of four years. But he was not at all comfortable with combat arms jobs. Hinzman also tried to stay in the army with a non-combat job by filling out the forms for conscientious objector status at Fort Bragg. By the time he was waiting for a final decision of his application, he went to Afghanistan and worked there in a kitchen. But later, he was informed that he wasn’t able to qualify as a conscientious objector and thus he was ordered to fight in Iraq.

Since then Hinzman and his family has been living in Canada with the help of the savings that he accumulated while he was in military. But the question is that wasn’t he supposed to follow the instructions? To this, Hinzman said that while he was under training, he was told that he should disobey the orders if they are illegal or immoral. He added that he sincerely felt that invading and occupying Iraq was an illegal and immoral work to do.

But Pelley says that one can’t have an Army of free-thinkers. If that is the case, than you will not have an army.