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2004 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States Army dropped one charge against an Ohio National Guard member convicted once and charged again with disobeying a lawful order after he refused to take the anthrax vaccine, then deployed the soldier to Iraq without the shots.
Specialist Kurt Hickman, 20, of Granville, left for Iraq on February 7, 2004, with the Army's 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. Hickman's unit will report on events in Iraq for the Army and will escort civilian journalists throughout the region.
Hickman was charged January 23 in Indiana with disobeying an order after refusing to take the series of shots as ordered earlier that month.
Major Michael Brady, spokesman for Camp Atterbury in Indiana, where Hickman prepared to go overseas, said the charge was dropped the day Hickman departed with his unit. Brady said he didn't know why the charge was dropped.
The January charge is separate from a December 13 conviction in Ohio. Hickman became the first Ohio National Guard member to be ...