PHOENIX (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered an Army soldier temporarily housed in Maricopa County’s "tent city" jail for being absent without leave returned to military custody, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Friday.

"I think they want to review the program," Arpaio said.

"We are going to get him today, and he will come back here in Army custody," Fort Huachuca spokesman Maj. Matt Garner said in Sierra Vista.

Garner said the decision to return the soldier to Fort Huachuca was made between officials at the fort and at Army level.

Earlier this week, Arpaio announced that he had agreed to take prisoners serving sentences for being AWOL at the jail, which houses prisoners in old Army tents.

Officials at Fort Huachuca had said they hoped the soldiers’ experiences in the "tent city" would be close to the living accommodations of soldiers in Iraq.

Arpaio said the original decision was a good one, "and I still say it’s a good decision. Isn’t it amazing that the guy’s doing time in a Korean War tent?"

Fort officials were enthusiastic about sending the AWOL soldier to the jail and felt that "this soldier really learned a lot in the hot tent," the sheriff said.

Those officials believe that the heat "is a deterrence," Arpaio said. He added that he had talked to the soldier a few days ago in the tent, "and he said he sure did learn his lesson."

Arpaio said he hopes that the Pentagon will send him more AWOL soldiers.

"We have about 2,000 people, and we can talk a few more," he said.

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Speaking of shit…

The  treasonous Neojohns at Iraq Veterans Against The War (All of whom enlisted into the US military of their own volition while America is at war), are stepping up efforts to get onto US military bases to talk soldiers into going AWOL. The IVAW is claiming over 10,000 soldiers have gone AWOL in resistance to the Iraq war. Of course that’s a blatant lie, but the truth is a foreign concept to these treasonous bastards.