Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
Why not send him to Afghanistan, which is generally recognised to be far more dangerous than Iraq? Surely he has no problem with the legality of that, while the danger he will face will counter accusations of cowardice.
The US army is hardly going to change the deployment of a battalion to suit one of the lieutenants within it. If he wished to prove that he isn't a coward, then I'm sure he could request a transfer, rather than skulking in a base in the US.