Andre Shepherd’s asylum rejected by German courts again
We’ve been following Andre Shepherd since he first deserted and applied for asylum in Germany in 2008. He was a mechanic for Apache helicopter gunships who was to deploy with his unit for a second time. We’ve been told by people who deployed with him that he wasn’t very dependable anyway – he ran their dayroom during his first deployment. According to someone who knew him before he joined the Army, he wasn’t very dependable back then either.
German courts denied his application for asylum back in 2011. I guess his lawyer appealed that decision, and they were in court the other day where asylum was denied once again, according to Russia Today;
Andre Shepherd, 39, deserted his post at Katterbach Kaserne military base in southern Germany in 2007 after being told he would have to return to Iraq for a second tour. He claims he felt that he would be forced to take part in what he called “war crimes” if he did.
However, that excuse failed to hold up in court and the case was dismissed on Thursday, with presiding Judge Josef Ruber ruling that Shepherd had failed to exercise all available options to leave the military before deserting, making no attempt to join another military unit.
Ruber also said that Shepherd – who served as an Apache helicopter mechanic for the US Army – was unable to prove that he would have been forced to commit war crimes on returning to Iraq….
I think he was more scared that Jody was going to steal his German girlfriend than he was about being forced to commit war crimes, to the extent that a depot-level mechanic can commit war crimes while mopping up the dayroom.
Category: Antiwar crowd
Maybe the German Government is also tired of him getting a free ride on their turf as well? I wonder if the US Army will even bother to give him any time before throwing his sorry ass out to the curb?
Germany should give him asylum…..a MENTAL ASYLUM!
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article said he had re-enlisted multiple times” and he was an E-4? Somehow I didn’t think chopper mechanics were a glut on the market…
What? How can they not understand how often war crimes are occurring in the day room? He might even end up being put in charge of the MWR tent and have to deal with war crimes daily like Soldiers’ wives flashing their cans on webcam or trying to play World of Warcraft online!
Those damn Germans just don’t get how harsh war can be in day rooms and MWR tents across the combat zones.
If he thinks “we” would be committing war crimes, then he needs to just head to Iraq and link up with ISIS. I’m sure they’d love to abuse him as a propaganda tool and have a change up from goats. “Andre, it is Thursday again, put on the goat costume!”
Cocksucker.
What a turd.
But in the Great NW (just because he was in), he would be considered a hero.
Maggot.
If obama had a son, it would surely be andre…
DD comin’ your way, Andre.
Fa’kheem.
Shaving profile in three…two….one….
If I were in charge of his incarceration, I’d drive him to the barber weekly myself just to clean that fancy looking euro trash beard off him.
Bet they would let him stay if his name sounded slightly more Middle Eastern.
Sounds like Herr Ruber smelled bullshit.
Shitbag!
“I think he was more scared that Jody was going to steal his German girlfriend than he was about being forced to commit war crimes, to the extent that a depot-level mechanic can commit war crimes while mopping up the dayroom.”
Roomer has it that “Jody” has a bigger schnitzengruber that Andre Shepard and his gal was screaming “IT’S TWU, IT’S TWU!”
Sucks to be you, Andre Shepard
And there is one of life’s great mysteries to ponder until today’s WOT is posted.
Which is bigger: a Schnitzengruber or a Schwanzstuka?
Only Madeline Kahn knows and she can’t tell us.
You know you’re sucking on my arm, right?
‘Scuse me while I whip this out.”
Perhaps obongo will give him a Carteresqe pardon…
I can totally see the war crime angle.
You see my friends, if he services Apache helicopters, in effect he is allowing these war machines to fire upon innocent civilians in Iraq.
KnowwhutImsayin?
But we don’t have troops in Iraq anymore! Our lord and savior his holiness Barack Obama brought the troops home and ended the war!
is not the GWOT still in operation?
Wouldn’t his desertion be considered “Desertion during time of war” be a Firing Squad Offense?
Also, that is a show of cowardice in the face of the enemy, is it not?
Opinions????
Problem is, most of them who come back are just being put in the brig while they get processed out of the military, depending on how social justicey their lawyer is depends on how harshly they get discharged.
I will say my unit was able to charge a guy with desertion all the way to our CG for not showing up to mobilize and deploy. But we also had information indicating he was purposely avoiding it and hiding out…….from his Myspace page. (Back when myspace was facebook of course)
On my last OIF tour in 2007 I had a 42 year old SPC who took an extra 3 weeks of mid tour leave and was pending charges when he refused to go out on route clearance missions because he was claiming we were committing war crimes.
Believe it or not I could not get him into the stockade down in Arifjan Kuwait and we had to sit on this turd while his charges ground through the system. He got busted to PVT but because he had a wife and about 5 kids he didn’t get much in the way of fines.
We were finally able to pawn him off on FOB maintenance where he subsequently tried to reenlist (there was a bonus don’t you know)and I even had the FOB CSM talk to me about the bar for reenlistment that was on him to see if I would support his request to lift it (I was a Co 1SG).
So, long story short….ain’t no firing squad in this douche’s future.
sounds sadly, to me, that the UCMJ isn’t what it used to be. Back in my day, if you even looked cross eyed at your platoon sgt, you’d be headed for a Company Grade article 15, 30 days of extra duty, and confinement to the barracks, as well as forfeiture of pay, etc…
Andre could always travel east, maybe the Russians would take him? How about the Chechens?
A black Russian?
I was surprised at the number of black people in the bigger cities in Russia. I don’t know their history but most of the ones I saw in Moscow were speaking Russian and seemed to be part and parcel of the culture.
My question would be would the Russians treat a coward deserter very well….even one from a perceived adversary.
BAZINGA!
You see that guy up there? That Andre Shepard guy?
Fuck him. FUCK that guy.
What? Is he dating some stank ass IVAW thing?
It appears to me whomever wrote this story omitted one very important word in that final comment/paragraph. Between German and girlfriend….add Shepherd.
I see what you did there. Well done.
I was forced to watch Bulldog vs Volunteers football in the dayroom while in Georgia. Is that a war crime?
The pilots said Hell No!! I wouldn’t trust him to work on anything that my life depends on, so keep sell soda’s and chips at MWR.