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From: Alighieri10/16/2004 11:00:14 AM
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Mississippi Soldiers Arrested


Seventeen members of an Army Reserve platoon were read their rights and moved from their barracks to tents Wednesday when they refused to go on what they called a suicide mission.

Sgt. Larry McCook has been in the military for over ten years. He is a deputy at the Hinds County Detention Center. Sgt. William Butler has been in service for more than 24 years. He is a carpenter with Jackson Public Schools . Twenty-year-old Aaron Gorden of Vicksburg was also arrested. Pat McCook says her husband feared for the lives of the young soldiers in the platoon because they were given unsafe vehicles and no armed escort to watch out for ambushes in Taji , Iraq.

"It was a suicide mission they were basically sending them on. Why would you put someone in a vehicle that's unsafe in a hostile territory? You're just setting them up for failure. You're setting them up for ambush. I don't want that to happen to my husband," said Pat McCook.

McCook says she received a call Friday afternoon and was told her husband and the other members of the platoon had been released. Five of the soldiers including McCook and Butler were assigned to other units. She says an investigation was also conducted and verified some of the soldiers’ concerns.

Jackie Butler says she is still worried because she has not spoken with her husband. She says she received a call about the arrest early Wednesday morning from someone else in his unit.
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