While I don't really like the words you've used, I can understand where you're coming from by saying it's probably something obvious and mundane as opposed to to "exciting" (I don't think when there's a possibility someone's come to harm or maybe died that could ever be described as "exciting", but I don't think that's what you're implying).
But, we've heard from a number of people that some of these thoughts of AWOL seem to them to be based more in fictional stories than in the reality of life in the RAF. It's not like running away from the army when you're out in a warzone. Very few people are going AWOL from the RAF according to stats that have been posted several times in these five threads. Quite often AWOLs are just going home to their family and getting jobs, or some are running home to family and sitting on the sofa for a year and everyone knows where they are, and no one is knocking them on the door and dragging them off to a cell.
While people can act on impulse and on the spur of the moment, it seems very strange to decide to go AWOL with no money, no change of clothes, no car or anything like that at 3.30 in the morning after a night out. Especially when we're talking about a friendly person with a lot of friends at work, a tight-knit family out of work who you've already arranged two visits with in the next two months.
Compare that to just walking up to your CO and just telling them you are unhappy and want out and they'll assist you with whatever you want, and you can just drive out with your car, clothes, money, dog, everything and go out and make a fresh start with some good things on your CV.
I'm not trying to claim no one has ever gone AWOL in the sense people are thinking of, but I do have doubts over all the caring over placement of cctv cameras when someone's doing some spur-of-the-moment AWOL, which would be far more likely to be something like going out with a mate to their place, getting drunk again on the subsequent two nights and turning up late for roll call on Monday morning.
They never changed it to homicide without a body! Corrie has always been a Missing Person.
I'm now tired of going round in circles....
You can assume, guess and dwell as much as you like, but you don't know what happened. Fact.
He wasn't kidnapped, nor attacked...and that's been established by the forensic searches. Which means he left of his own accord. Why don't people want to accept it's the most obvious thing? Or maybe you just CAN'T accept that people do actually go AWOL! Maybe they WANT mystery, intrigue, suspense...as mundane, boring scenarios don't excite them.
