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Originally Posted by DanaC
soldiers refusing to fight get court-martialled, surely?
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I was referring to soldiers refusing to fight claiming conscientious objector status. Courts Martial is a judicial procedure. Those claiming conscientious objector status go into pretrial diversion in which an administrative process either validates or invalidates the claim. Validation means the petitioner is authenticated as a conscientious objector and administratively separated from military service. If the claim is determined to be invalid, then the soldier proceeds to trial.