Posted on 03/27/2015 4:27:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nope.
Bergdahl was planning to report what he believed to be problems with “order and discipline” in his unit, a senior Defense official tells CNN. A second official says Bergdahl had “concerns about leadership issues at his base.”…
Both officials declined to be identified because of the legal proceedings against Berghahl, but both have direct knowledge of the information outlined in the report. “This was a kid who had leadership concerns on his mind,” the second official said. “He wasn’t fed up, he wasn’t planning to desert.”…
Both officials said Bergdahl believed he could make it to the next base by relying on wilderness skills he learned growing up in rural Idaho, even though the area was full of insurgents. It was not immediately clear how far the nearest base was during that timeframe in July 2009.
Supposedly he thought he couldn’t trust his own commanders to address his “leadership concerns” and hoped that officers at the next base over, wherever that might be, would be more sympathetic to … a guy who had just gone AWOL in the dead of night. What’s the problem with that theory? Let’s ask one of the men who served with Bergdahl:[continued]
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Not sure if it will matter. You don’t have to prove an intention to permanently leave your unit. You only have to prove that he left when his unit was in a hazardous situation, combat. The fact that six of his unit members died looking for him makes a case for that.
Exactly my thinking. In search of a point for appeals.
Stick with that defense, kid, and you’ll be spending the rest of your life in Kansas.
“Wilderness skills he learned in rural Idaho”
Yep. Idaho, where every potato has a machine gun.
Of course along the way he was asking about how he could find the Taliban.
Bergdahl was planning to report what he believed to be problems with “order and discipline” in his unit....
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Well, I believe that story. Of course, his unit was not behaving with order and discipline — of the koran. The “next base” that he wanted to report to was the enemy’s, and he did so.
He’s had how many years and this is the best story he has? They should shoot him for being an idiot.
He and his mohamhead buddies consider that a success story.
“Well, I believe that story. Of course, his unit was not behaving with order and discipline — of the koran. The “next base” that he wanted to report to was the enemy’s, and he did so.”
I couldn’t make a better summation.
The kid’s got potential. He could be Secretary of State in 20 or 30 years.
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