Liberation News Service, as early as November 1967, carried a list of known draft resisters in each issue. The Sir! No Sir! blog is proud to carry a similar list of active duty GIs who refuse to participate in the war machine. This list will not be complete, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that most GIs who split the military are anonymous until they surface, either in Canada or at a court martial hearing.
The Current List of Known Veteran and Active Duty Iraq War Resisters - Part 1
Agustín Aguayo (Seeking C.O. status)
Phil Aliff (Active duty member of Fort Drum IVAW)
Darrell Anderson (Refusenik in Canada, later discharged with less than honorable discharge)
Anuradha Bhagwati (Applied for C.O. status in Marine Corps)
Loren Barrett (Given 11 months in jail and a bad conduct discharge for "Deserting his unit the day before it deployed to Iraq")
Jonathan Barriga (Applied for C.O. status, current location unknown)
Dale Bartell (AWOL to avoid deployment ti Iraq, sentenced to four months in prison and Bad Conduct Discharge)
David Beals (Applied for C.O. status)
Kevin Benderman (Court-martialed for desertion for declaring himself a conscientious objector.)
Michael Blake (Discharged as a C.O.)
James Blanks (Refused deployment to Afghanistan)
Erik Botta (Appealed to federal courts to block the Army from sending him to Iraq on a fifth deployment was excused from active service after being found medically unfit. )
Ivan Brobeck (Refusenik in Canada, returned to U.S., court-martialed and jailed at Quantico, Virginia. He was released in February, 2007 with a bad conduct discharge.)
Peter Brown (Granted C.O. status)
David Bunt (Application for C.O. status rejected, discharged form military in 2005)
Thomas Buonomo (Granted early discharge, after calling for Dick Cheney's impeachment)
Nathan Burden (AWOL, Current status unknown)
James Burmeister (Refusenik in Canada)
Travis Burnham (Applied for C.O. status in January 2003, currently student at Humboldt State University)
Yitav Busira (Israeli Refusenik)
Chris Capps (AWOL in March 2007, discharged May 2007, founder of IVAW in Germany)
Sergei Chaparin (Granted discharge as C.O.)
Eugene Cherry (AWOL as result of PTSD, honorably discharged in July 2007)
Alton Christiana (AWOL, status unknown)
James Circello (AWOL, status unknown)
Travis Clark (Pledged to resist Iraq deployment in USA Today interview)
Justin Cliburn (Pledged to resist Iraq redeployment, current status unknown)
Clifford Cornell (Refusenik in Canada)
Justin Faulkner (Currently receiving treatment for PTSD)
Brad Gaskins (Tried at Ft. Drum for Going AWOL)
Jeffrey Gauntt (Refused deployment to Afghanistan)
Corey Glass (Refusenik in Canada)
Patrick Hart (Refusenik in Canada)
Andrew Hegerty (Refused deployment to Afghanistan)
Lisa Hayes (Honorably Discharged)
Derek Hess (Discharged for refusing deployment to Iraq)
Clifton Hicks (Honorably discharged as a Conscientious Objector)
Kevin Hicks (Honorably discharged as a Conscientious Objector)
Jeremy Hinzman (Refusenik in Canada)
Brandon Hughey (Refusenik in Canada)
Kyle Huwer (Honorably discharged as a Conscientious Objector)
Ryan Johnson (Refusenik in Canada)
Joshua Key (Refusenik in Canada)
Christian Kjar (Refusenik in Canada)
Ben Kogan (Israeli Refusenik)
Vincent J. LaVolpa (Application for C.O. status)
Calvin Chee Keong Lee (Application for C.O. status)
Blake Lemoine (Refused orders to Iraq)
Robin Long (Refusenik in Canada)
Phil McDowell (Refusenik in Canada)
Alex Messing (Israeli Refusenik)
Eilam Oren (Israeli Refusenik)
DeShawn O Reed (Honorably discharged as a Conscientious Objector)
Kimberly Rivera (Refusenik in Canada)
Suzanne Swift (seeking medical discharge, current status unknown)
Dean Walcott (Refusenik in Canada)
Ehren Watada (Seeking C.O. status)
Jason Webb (Honorably discharged as a Conscientious Objector)
Mark Wilkerson (Jailed for 7 months for refusing deployment to Iraq, active with IVAW)
Eli Wright (Active duty member of Fort Drum IVAW)
Lennox Yearwood (Threatened with discharge on the basis of behavior that, in their words, is "clearly inconsistent with the interest of national security.")
Steve Yoczik (Refusenik in Canada)
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