Posted on 12/10/2015 2:16:05 PM PST by Hojczyk
Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl broke his silence about leaving his base in Afghanistan to NPR’s popular “Serial†podcast. In it, he claims he deserted his unit to highlight poor leadership†and rapidly realized he was “in over his head.
“Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don’t know, Jason Bourne. I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing, he stated. You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that, but I wanted to prove that I was that.â€
He claimed he fled his unit in order to “create a DUSTWUN a radio signal that stands for ‘Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown’ – to highlight poor leadership within his unit.†Bergdahl knew his disappearance would cause a “hurricane of wrath†and a manhunt. He immediately realized he was in over his head, changed plans, and become Bourne-like by collecting “intelligence and look for the Taliban before turning himself in as a way of limiting the amount of trouble he faced.â€
And what I was seeing, from my first unit all the way up into Afghanistan, all I was seeing was, basically, leadership failure, to the point that the lives of the guys standing next to me were, literally, from what I could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong and somebody being killed, he insisted.
Bergdahl said the Taliban captured him after he was lost. Between six and seven men with AK-47s approached him on motorcycles in the desert, taking him as a prisoner of war for five years.
And they pulled up and just… That was it, he said.
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I think that obama will make him a general soon.
LMAO.
sounds like White House coaching
Trump is right. Shoot him and his misery will be over.
Son, before you opened your mouth we just thought you were a traitor. Now, we know you're not only a traitor, but an ignorant fool who can't even tell the difference between a Hollywood movie and real life.
The nation the doesn’t hang its traitors will end up electing them.
We’ve seen that already.
Form the firing squad.
how about shoot him so our misery will be over
I’m not military. But, this sounds like so much horse-crap to me.
Right on!
This traitor should be making little ones out of big ones.
Bravo Sierra.
How this guy get in the Army or is this an act
Seppuku.
Sometimes nothing less will do.
Buckle up. Here we go...
Horse crap it is, you don’t have to be military to figure that one out. He is a “deserter” and did so in the face of the enemy, not only did he desert, he joined up WITH the enemy. Death penalty is in order.
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