Article: Medic trying to get on active duty.(General News)(A Springfield reservist says recruiters' advice not to reveal a juvenile crime has come back to haunt him)

Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard

The Army won't let an eager Springfield soldier go to war because he concealed a juvenile felony that he said recruiters told him to hide.

Reservist Damien Syth, 26, said that his request for active duty has been denied because he withheld the fact that he'd been charged with burglary as a teenager.

Syth said he tried to report the charge when he first joined the Army in 1998, but a recruiter wrongly told him not to, explaining that the offense was irrelevant and would only require an especially long approval process. Recruiters told Syth the same thing twice more over the years, he said.

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