Editing Dick Contino (section)

==Military service==
Contino's career was interrupted when he was [[conscription|drafted]] during the [[Korean War]]. He fled from pre-induction barracks at [[Fort Ord]] out of extreme, unpublicized phobias and neuroses.<ref>"Contino Offers to Enlist if Allowed to Get Well". ''Toledo Blade''. April 23, 1951. p. 3.</ref> In 1951, he pled guilty to evasion and was sentenced to serve six months at [[McNeil Island Corrections Center]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Contino's Parole Application Denied|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17788937/dick_contino/|work=The Kokomo Tribune|agency=Associated Press|date=November 9, 1951|location=Indiana, Kokomo|page=6|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = February 26, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> 

He was inducted into the army in 1952, having served four and a half months of his sentence.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/albany-democrat-herald-musician-contino/128380472/ "Musician Contino Begins Army Hitch"], ''Albany Democrat-Herald'', Thursday, May 08, 1952</ref>  He was honorably discharged with the rank of staff sergeant. Although he received a [[presidential pardon]], the scandal dealt Contino's career a serious blow. He continued to perform, and acted in a few movies in the 1950s and 1960s.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}