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Bergdahl could get $350G tax-free, if cleared by Army
Fox News ^ | 07/14/2014

Posted on 07/14/2014 10:41:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could have a tax-free $350,000 dropped into his bank account if the current investigation into his disappearance from his base in Afghanistan was not desertion, and if he is deemed to have been a prisoner of war for the five years he was held by Islamic militants, Fox News has learned.

The 28-year-old soldier, for whom the U.S. traded five senior Taliban operatives held at Guantanamo Bay, was set to return to active duty Monday after spending six weeks in medical rehab at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio.

“Essentially he’ll be working a desk job,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters at the Pentagon Monday.

Bergdahl is due approximately $200,000 in back pay for the time he was in Taliban hands. He would be eligible for another $150,000 if an ongoing probe determines he was a prisoner of war. Both sums could be tax free for Bergdahl, who was promoted from private first class to sergeant during the time he was held.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; bergdahldeserter; bowebergdahl; gitmo; kenyanbornmuzzie; obamabergdahl; taliban
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1 posted on 07/14/2014 10:41:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It can be nice to be on the right side of the entropy agenda.


2 posted on 07/14/2014 10:43:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Definitely, DNC Judge material if not the
centerpiece as a DNC Senator.


3 posted on 07/14/2014 10:43:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT US Congress remains COMPLICIT)
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To: Diogenesis

If nothing else... this creep with be front-and-center at the next State of the Union address.... Nauseating!!


4 posted on 07/14/2014 10:45:18 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping me when they make him Sergeant Major of the Army or a warrant or commissioned officer.


5 posted on 07/14/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The fix is in.

Do not doubt it.

This dirtbag will be freed and get the bucks.

Then, it will be up to his fellow soldiers to do what must be done.


6 posted on 07/14/2014 10:49:33 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind
This Bergdahl story keeps getting weirder and weirder.

The Army has clearly decided that he isn't going to be treated as a deserter or collaborator, despite the considerable evidence to the contrary.

That leaves essentially two possibilities:

1) Barry, as CiC, has given a direct order that Bergdahl is to be “reintegrated” and his previous behavior excused and ignored, for personal political reasons of the Potus; or,

2) Bergdahl was on a secret mission to spy on his captors.

You can figure out for yourselves which option you think most likely.

7 posted on 07/14/2014 10:53:20 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. Back in the good old days, deserters were shot. Now they get a pot of taxpayer cash, tax free. That’s better than the lottery.


8 posted on 07/14/2014 10:54:21 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Da Coyote
Then, it will be up to his fellow soldiers to do what must be done.

Soldier: "Gee sir, I don't know why he did it, but he wrapped that extention cord around his neck and jumped out of the 3rd floor barracks! Just ask these other two soldiers, they saw the same thing I did"!

9 posted on 07/14/2014 10:54:25 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"“Essentially he’ll be working a desk job,”

So that they can keep him away from the rest of the active duty population they will give him a profile and assign him to an admin job where a career office will be instructed to keep him 'safe' from any unwanted contact.

10 posted on 07/14/2014 10:56:22 AM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: Diogenesis

Bowe would be a perfect replacement for Senators Kerry, Harkin, Levin, or Durbin. Traitors all!


11 posted on 07/14/2014 10:56:56 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Baynative

RE: So that they can keep him away from the rest of the active duty population they will give him a profile and assign him to an admin job where a career office will be instructed to keep him ‘safe’ from any unwanted contact.

Will he be handling classified information like the transgender — Bradley Manning?


12 posted on 07/14/2014 10:59:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yet another way Obama can use taxpayer’s money to fund jihad.


13 posted on 07/14/2014 11:00:39 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Army runs on regulations and paperwork. As much power as Obama thinks he has, he is still no match for a GS-7 who demands that the paperwork must be handled properly.
Bergdahl will have a Commander and there will be a discussion with Bergdahl to first see if he wants to stay in the Army or get out. Decisions will then be made for the next step.


14 posted on 07/14/2014 11:03:44 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: LucianOfSamasota

You know there’s a problem when his checks go direct despot to a bank in Kabul.


15 posted on 07/14/2014 11:04:38 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: Diogenesis

What’s next? Will the deserter be promoter to head of the DOD?


16 posted on 07/14/2014 11:07:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (A ship once out of port is hard to capture:know this now before it is too late. - Solon)
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To: SeekAndFind

My guess is hell be doing something like clean up duty in the morning at the Officer’s Club.


18 posted on 07/14/2014 11:13:29 AM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mr.Susan Fluke!


19 posted on 07/14/2014 11:25:36 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: F15Eagle

Yes, after he throws a few medals over the fence at Prairie Chapel Ranch and he testifies in front of Congress about some concocted military misconduct like this classic...
“ They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”(only replace South Vietnam with Afghanistan)
or
“American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children.” (again, Afghanistan in place of Iraq).


20 posted on 07/14/2014 11:26:58 AM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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