LONDON, UK - After a near-flawless performance in the Olympic skeet shooting competition, Army Sergeant Vincent Hancock has been stop-lossed and deployed to Afghanistan.
Army officials have said that they are proud of his back-to-back gold medal performance in the games and look forward to his talents against the Taliban. The Sergeant, who serves with the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, was told of his new orders immediately following the medals ceremony.
"He looked distraught as two uniformed men talked to him," said David Thompson, a spectator at the competiiton. "He just kept shaking his head like 'no, no, no.' Finally, he walked off with the two men into a waiting helicopter."
Although SGT Hancock is set to leave the Army in November, his phenomenal performance prompted the Pentagon to initiate a stop-loss order -- a program that is now largely unused by any branch.
