article_snippet: Desertion with Intent to Shirk Important or Hazardous Duty': .
article_snippet: Article 85 charges a soldier with desertion if he 'quits he unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service.
article_snippet: Misbehavior Before the Enemy by Endangering the Safety of a Command, Unit or Place': .
article_snippet: Article 99 charges a servicemember with running away from a fighting enemy, throwing down his weapons, abandoning his platoon or other fighting unit, or otherwise purposely failing 'to do his utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, which it is his duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy.'
article_snippet: The 'misbehavior' charge is rare and typically reserved for shameful or cowardly conduct, said Daniel Conway, a military defense lawyer and the author of a forthcoming book on military crimes.
article_snippet: This is a matter that I anticipate we'll contest,' the misbehavior charge said.
article_snippet: the misbehavior charge said the desertion charge and the misbehavior charge 'are simply two ways of describing the same conduct, and I think it's unfortunate that someone got creative in drafting the charge sheet and figured out two ways to charge the same thing.'