Army Brat Aids Taliban?

The US Army is tough.  They make you roll around in the mud, run with heavy packs, shoot terrorists and, I guess, not have kids.

One soldier, Alex Hutchinson learned that--what other--the Army way, having had a kid without permission and the Army got pissy. 

Okay, Alex didn't show up for a scheduled deployment to Afghanistan, but it's not like Alex was going to the beach with the unit for the afternoon.  For that mission, a teen-age sitter and her inevitable boyfriend would have been fine.

Afghanistan is far away and--don't let the pretty poppies fool you--no place to take a little kid.  Or a marine, for that matter. 

So Alex, skipped the deployment so that little Kamani didn't end up in Army Foster Care and you can imagine how those guys would treat him, being unauthorized and all.  The Army was all angry and threatened a Court Martial or maybe two, one for having an unauthorized kid in the first place and a seconc for missing the first group meet in Kabul.

Don't blame the Army too much.  They did give Alex 30 extra days to formulate another long term plan for Kamani, the original one having fallen through.  Well, Alex did come up with another care plan, but the Army didn't like the part that kept Alex several thousand miles from the Taliban our Army had planned to have Alex shoot at.

Without Alex, the Army's mission will probably falter, Alex being a Specialist... having been a key Specialist.

The good news is that the Army and Alex settled out of Court Martial and Gitmo still has that extra room.  The bad news is that Alex is pretty much out of military and the Afghanistan thing is not going that well.