Doesn't matter a toss how late he was Bobert, the fact still remains, if he had been AWOL the military would have run him for it, irrespective of who he was, who his father was, or who his dog's uncle was.

They didn't did they - the answer to that is a straightforward Yes or No.

As we all know they didn't then the answer is NO. Therefore he did not go AWOL - nothing revisionist about that from this side of the discussion, you and others are the ones attempting to revise the history of this.