I used to think that if you enlist in the service, you get what you get. You have no reason to complain about being sent into combat. But I don’t think that anymore. Not with the evil bastards we have running this country. Not with the way they fuck our troops every step of the way. Kudos to this kid for getting home.

The Army has released a reservist from active duty and sent him home to Florida after he asked a federal court to block his fifth deployment to war zones, his lawyer said Tuesday.

The Army released Sgt. Erik Botta, 26, who served in Iraq three times and in Afghanistan once, because it determined he “was not medically qualified to remain on active duty,” said his attorney, Mark Waple.

The decision was surprising because Botta never claimed any medical disqualification and suffers from no illnesses, Waple said.

Botta had said at the time he filed his court petition in July that he wasn’t against the war, but simply felt he had done his duty. He was granted an initial exemption from deployment last year, allowing him to pursue an electrical engineering degree at Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Beach Community College and work as a senior technician on Blackhawk and Seahawk helicopters at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

But his latest exemption request was initially denied by the Army.

In his court petition, Botta had said he thought the Army should consider his previous tours “to assure a sharing of exposure to the hazards of combat,” and contended that the Army’s refusal to exempt him “constitutes unlawful custody.”

Botta, who was stationed at Fort Jackson near Columbia, S.C., returned to his home in Port St. Lucie on Monday night, his attorney said.

“We’re very happy to have Erik home with his family, headed back to school and back to his job,” Waple said.

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