"desertion from" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a situation in which someone leaves something (usually a group, organization, or position) without permission or authorization. For example: "The soldier's desertion from the army was considered a crime."
Desertion from the Iraqi army has been made punishable by death.Methods of execution vary widely.
In past months these groups' efforts had focused on discouraging enlistments and, most recently, encouraging desertion from the army.
It recounted the story of two young sailors who, even though the war has ended, are executed for desertion from the Wehrmacht.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the desertion from the Navy by a young man, Harry Taggart (a pseudonym), for over 2 1/2 years, in this country & in Canada.
Although he was arrested there for desertion from the army, imprisoned at Kazan, and sentenced to be deported to Siberia, he escaped and in June 1773 appeared in the steppes east of the Volga River.
Mr. Adel, 43, turned his head to reveal a gnarled stub of an ear — the rest was forcibly amputated, without anesthesia, under Saddam Hussein, as punishment for his desertion from the army in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war.
Dissensions within the group and desertions from it occurred quickly, however, and it finally disbanded in 1899.
Many people are arriving here who have spent 10, 15 years in armed combat.' The government reports 1,405 desertions from Farc in 2008, a 10percentnt increase on last year.
Both are now being reconstituted, although dissatisfaction over pay -- about $60 a month for a private -- has led to desertions from the embryonic army.
Although it is too soon to see results from the recent shift, a NATO official said Tuesday that the alliance was closely watching early signs, like the recent reports of desertions from the Libyan Army.
There have been other defections and desertions from the Syrian military, mostly by army conscripts, many of them now members of the Free Syrian Army, the amalgamation of armed groups fighting to overthrow Mr. Assad.
