Quote Originally Posted by Somebody Else
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.
Attach him to the Brits the next time we want to repeat the outpost strategy. 60 days of isolation, no reinforcements, no resupply, under heavy fire 24/7. I don't think we're quite lunatic enough to want to repeat that feat, but if you can cobble together a company of conscientious objectors I'm sure we'll be happy enough to oblige (chuck in the accused from Haditha and other incidents if you're short). Perhaps if they're lucky they'll emulate the British soldiers who survived, rather than the French soldiers who were gutted by their captors.

Didn't Napoleon used to march rebellious regiments into the open, to be whittled down by the enemy until he felt they had been sufficiently punished? Now there's a charming anachronism - penal battalions.