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You can judge him and tell yourself he had a duty to this country to serve out his time but then you would be ignoring the duty that the military had to him to take care of his wounds.

November 11, 2010 5:09 PM
AWOL Soldier Suffering from PTSD Turns Himself In
Posted by Armen Keteyian

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 (Credit: CBS/Pia Malbran)
AWOL Army Specialist Jeff Hanks turns himself in at Ft. Campbell, KY November 11, 2010

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky.

Less than 24 hours after interviewing AWOL Army specialist Jeff Hanks in the living room of his temporary home in White Lake, North Carolina, I was waiting for him to turn himself in at Gate 4 of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

In that brief time, Hanks had become something of a symbol.

He was a soldier struggling with what he said was war-induced stress, anger, panic - all PTSD-like symptoms.

He was fighting the military for help to the point where he walked away from the Army last month after a superior ordered him to return to Afghanistan just days before an on-base mental health assessment.
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AWOL Army Specialist Jeff Hanks turns himself in