absense without leave
More than 17,000 episodes of troops going Awol since 2003
04/02/2011The Independent
British soldiers have gone on the run from their posts on more than 17,000 occasions since the start of the Iraq war, The Independent can reveal.
At least 1,000 UK soldiers desert
10/01/2011
BBC
More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted since the start of the Iraq war, the BBC has learned.
