Posted on 06/01/2014 12:21:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After five years as a POW, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is headed home. But the circumstances of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan remain unclear, indicating he may have walked away from his base.
For now, the story for US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is one of physical and mental recovery and reunion with his family.
But very soon it will involve debriefings about the nearly five years of his captivity by Taliban fighters, who apparently held him in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, where his infantry unit had been engaged in combat.
Military and intelligence experts will want to know how he was treated, anything he can tell them about his captors, and what he learned about insurgent capabilities.
But for the young soldier – 23 when he became a prisoner of war, now 28 – those debriefings also will include difficult questions about how and why he happened to be in a position where he fell into the hands of Taliban fighters.
There have been no reports that he was captured during direct combat, that the “fog of war” had put him involuntarily in a vulnerable location.
At this point in the developing narrative, Sgt. Bergdahl seems to have grown disillusioned with the mission, bitter about the Army and especially higher ranking enlisted men and officers, and simply walked off – gone “outside the wire” or protective base limits – and disappeared.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
One less thing to do to get back to the golf course [that he just came from anyway].
Anyone know how old the parents are? Old hippies?
Bowe asked, before he walked off base and was told not to take his rifle or his night vision goggles.
My comment was from the article linked to this thread: the Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2014/0601/Did-Bowe-Bergdahl-go-AWOL-in-Afghanistan
Half way down page. Apparently he discussed it widely before deserting.
Thanks for the feedback. I just grabbed it from another thread and put it up. My gut feeling is that it won’t be challenged or refuted.
Against which traitor?
Thank you for pinging me to that. Tapper did a good job.
Bergdahl.
Then find out who sent out those nda forms.
I was thinking more of the other traitor myself. I don’t know about “nda forms.” What’s that about?
“CodyFNfootball” said somebody gave them nda forms to sign.
RummyChick post : (about the nda and what some folks did with them)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3162555/posts?page=84#84
Bonfire comment: (link to Cody tweets)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3162555/posts?page=95#95
Many thanks RummyChick and bonfire for those posts!
Thanks for the reply and the links. I had no idea what ‘nda’ stood for.
With that kind of family background, I really don’t know what the creep was doing in the military to begin with.
RE: Beware of the Rhino
Is Bowe Bergdahl a registered Republican?
Don't know. I intended my post for another story...my goof.
Another first person account of the Bowe Bergdahl saga
I put a link back to where I found it in my post.
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