After being on the run for four years, Cliff Cornell has turned himself in.
He wasn't running from the law but from the U.S. Army.
Cornell enlisted in 2002, but when he heard his third infantry division unit was deploying to Iraq, he left for Canada.
For the past four years he has lived in Canada and worked as an assistant manager at a grocery store.
Last week he was told he was going to be deported because he had lied on some citizenship paperwork.
That's when Cornell decided he would return to the Army.
"Well, that was part of my agreement I had with my recruiter. I told him what I wanted to do, but I didn't want to go to war, and he more or less guaranteed I would never be shipped to war," Cornell said.
When asked if he would do it all over again, Cornell said, "Yeah, because I am not over there taking part in this illegal war, I'm not over there killing innocent people or taking part in the torturing that is going on."
The warrant for Cornell's arrest was desertion, but there is no word on whether charges will be pressed. A spokesperson for Fort Stewart says Cornell has been assigned to the first brigade combat team and his commander will decide what the next step will be.
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