Was Deserter, surrended on my own accord, sent back to KS for past civilian crime

[lilshawnb]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Kansas/Georgia

I joined the Army August 18th of 2008, finished basic training, finished AIT, was assigned to Ft. Stewart, Georgia. On the 7th of my 8 day in-processing at Ft. Stewart, I came home because my wife had been served court papers by her mother, to gain guardianship of our 4 children for completely rediculous reasons. I informed my sergeant of the situation and she said I needed to get a Red Cross message sent. Well, I honestly didn't have a second to spare to do that, and I just came home. I called my sergeant and told her that I had come home. Well, she kept me from being AWOL for a couple of weeks but the legal issues with my mother-in-law were time consuming. Anyways, I ended up being gone from Ft. Stewart for about 2 and a half months. I was in contact with a civilian official at the MP station at Ft. Stewart during the end of that 2 and a half months. I let him know that I was trying to come up with the money to get myself AND my wife to Ft. Stewart. I was by now, listed as a deserter. He tried convincing me many times over to go to the nearest recruiting station and tell them who I was and what my status was, but I refused because I refused the leave my wife behind. I made it to Ft. Stewart with my wife, unfortunately, a crime I committed a couple of months before I joined the Army, with charges that were not filed until AFTER I joined the Army, popped up on my record. So, I was put in Liberty County Jail, just outside of Ft. Stewart, to wait for the county here in Kansas to come and extradite me. Well, that all occured about a month ago. Thank God, bringing my wife with me, the Army Community Services at Ft. Stewart took wonderful care of my wife. They put her up in a hotel for a couple of days and gave her a GENEROUS grant to get her a plane ticket back to Kansas from Savannah, and with enough money left over to possibly get an apartment or some sort of place to live. Well, after spending 2 days in jail in Georgia, Kansas came and picked me up and flew me back to Kansas. That same day, my wife came and bailed me out. A month has passed now, and after a couple of court appearances, and today a diversion interview, I'm about 2 weeks from knowing if I am approved for diversion, to have all charges dropped after a year on diversion, with no mistakes made. I was informed that I would be allowed to return to Georgia, in the event that my diversion is approved. I spoke to the civilian at the MP station today and updated him on what was happening and he told me that when I was allowed to return, to call him and he'd get me set up with a plane ticket back, but NOT to bring my wife with me. Family members and friends are telling me that I'll get a plane ticket back to Ft. Stewart, and they'll already have all the paperwork done for me to be chaptered out of the Army and I'll basically be sent right back out the gates with a plane ticket back to Kansas. Now, before anyone assumes anything, I never went AWOL and became a Deserter with the intention of getting booted out of the Army. I left to deal with what I saw as a family emergency that required my attention immediately. I have all the supporting paperwork from the courts and all paperwork that was served to my wife and I. On top of ALL of this, since I've been back in Kansas, my wife has had a miscarriage of twins and also, before anyone wants to assume, she was 4 months pregnant, however it was what is called a Molar Pregnancy, which is basically something that occured shortly after conception and is in no way related to stress and what not. Anyways, sorry for the rediculously long story here. My main question is, in anyone and everyones opinion, what will happen to me when I return to Ft. Stewart? Am I going to get an Other Than Honorable discharge? I can see them having leniency on me for leaving to deal with serious, documented, family issues, but my legal troubles that came up are a different story and I have a feeling they will frown upon that and give me the boot. The same day I returned to Ft. Stewart was the same day I was officially entered into the FBI database with a felony warrant, however I was there when the civilian at the MP station is called in and had that warrant dropped. Also, the fact that I returned to my duty station and surrendered, rather than fled and tried to hide, I believe will be beneficial to me in showing that I was not trying to escape the grasp of the Army. I was also changed from dropped from rolls to present for duty, and as of right now, I am simply on some form of leave but I am not considered AWOL. I've made sure of that by calling Ft. Stewart every other day and keeping them informed on my legal issues here in Kansas. So, anyways, am I going to get booted out of the Army for my legal issues that arose? The charges that I am facing until I finish diversion is 4 county of Felony Forgery. Forgery of checks. A stupid ass mistake I made over a year ago when I was having trouble supporting my family and feeding my kids, which, ended up being my reason for joining the Army. Now, some of you may say, I have a chance of staying in the Army if I get on my knees and beg for forgiveness and beg them to let me stay in, however, there is another, not quite so serious predicament that I'm in. Since being back in Kansas, to support my wife and I(not our kids because we couldn't afford an attorney for the guardianship case, while my mother-in-law, who is loaded, could afford the best attorney available, we lost guardianship of our kids, temporarily), I've gotten a job. A very good job, that actually pays me more than I was making in the Army, including BAH and BAS at the rank of E-2, and provides my wife and I with health insurance. So, if the Army tells me they're kicking me out, do I not put up a fight, and continue with my new civilian job, or do I beg to stay in the Army, and finish my enlistment. I know the majority of you will tell me to beg to stay in, which I do agree, is a VERY honorable thing to do, however, I now have a great job. Something I would have never dreamed I would be able to get. I'm not an extremely religious person but since I've been back in Kansas, I've prayed to God to give me some sort of opportunity so that I can support my wife and I and even be able to take care of my kids some also. Well, this new job. I found it online, send the lady an e-mail with my resume. Well, I got an e-mail back from her at like 4:55 PM, 5 mintues before she left the office, saying that she wasn't able to open it and that she was going to stop accepting resumes at 3:00 PM the following day. Well, I didn't see the e-mail until almost 8:00 PM. Her phone number in her office was in the e-mail. I called the number to leave her a message asking what exactly was wrong. By some miracle, she was in her office because she left something important there. We spoke for maybe 15 minutes, answering all her questions about my work background and what not and she told me instead of e-mailing her my resume, to just come in the next day with a copy of it and we'd do an interview. Well, I got the job at the interview. God had answered my prayers. Ok, I'll get to the end of this. Do I beg to stay in the Army, or do I stick with what I think God has blessed me with? Also, will I be getting discharged from the Army or not? Thanks for reading my long ass post. :-)

[UAneedadvice]

Well, I can't tell you for sure that you will be discharged from the military but it is highly likely that you will. It all depends on your command. Do you want to stay in? If so then sure fight for it if not just accept the OTH in lieu of court-martial.
I can't speak for the Army but I was discharged from the Navy with an OTH I was UA for about 4 months. I turned myself in and they offered me a OTH in lieu of and I was back home in a week and half. Just do what you have to so you can move on with your life and get everything behind you.
Good luck.