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SEAL: How a Failed Mission to Rescue Bergdahl Caused Irreparable Loss
Military.com ^ | December 24, 2015 | Dianna Cahn

Posted on 12/28/2015 5:56:10 PM PST by QT3.14

The juxtaposition of two American military men who could stand in the same courtroom in the coming months couldn't be set in more stark relief.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faces a general court-martial for walking off of his base in eastern Afghanistan in 2009. Bergdahl spent five years in Taliban captivity, where he was tormented, before being freed in a controversial prisoner exchange last year.

Jimmy Hatch, a Navy SEAL senior chief who led a platoon into a fierce battle to try to rescue Bergdahl, was shot and badly wounded on that mission. Beside him, service dog Remco lay mortally wounded, after running through a hail of bullets at two Taliban fighters hiding in a ditch, exposing their whereabouts.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009; afghanistan; army; bergdahl; bowebergdahl; jameshatch; seal; seals
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To: jwalsh07

Agree.


21 posted on 12/28/2015 6:38:30 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Probably a reason that this Lieutenant Colonel will never be called General. But, he was the Article 32 Investigating Officer who performs functions similar to a Grand Jury. He examines the evidence, considers the circumstances and determines if the evidence warrant court martial. He can recommend the type of Court Martial, but the Convening Authority makes the call. This guy is likely watching network news more than he ought to do.


22 posted on 12/28/2015 6:38:52 PM PST by centurion316 (,)
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To: rdcbn
Major General Kenneth Dahl is a JAG. He is one of the types who wants to add a little American style legalism to the battlefield, including Mirands Rights for terrorists

As a no-name grunt many years ago, if I were in charge right now I would make it a requirement that every JAG officer serve on-line as a line grunt behind a section or platoon sgt. for a year before being allowed into a military courtroom as a JAG officer.

23 posted on 12/28/2015 6:42:20 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Fightin Whitey

This is why Hillary would have wanted to join the Marines, so she could pad her resume and do sh!t similar to this.


24 posted on 12/28/2015 6:43:47 PM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: QT3.14

How can Military.com not get Senior Chief correct?


25 posted on 12/28/2015 6:44:04 PM PST by El.Cid803 (When seconds count, police are minutes away.)
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To: Parmy
They did used to.

My dad was a Combat Engineer in N. Africa, Sicily, Anzio, and the Winter War in '43-44. After hostilities concluded, he didn't have enough good points to get out, so he lateraled to the JAGs and supervised the Greek elections while being shot at by Communists.

He wouldn't have put up with any of the current JAG nonsense for a nanosecond.

26 posted on 12/28/2015 6:46:48 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Parmy
I would make it a requirement that every JAG officer serve on-line as a line grunt behind a section or platoon sgt. for a year

Bravo. Hear, hear

My War College classmate was a USMC JAG Officer. The Marines detailed him to a tour as an Infantry Rifle Company Commander while a serving JAG Officer. Smart.

27 posted on 12/28/2015 6:48:48 PM PST by centurion316
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To: Baynative

I wonder if this General Abrams is any kin to the former Creighton Abrams?


28 posted on 12/28/2015 6:56:53 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: centurion316

I would make it a requirement that all members of Congress, the Senate and the President be veterans.


29 posted on 12/28/2015 6:57:23 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: centurion316

No, he wasn’t a rifle company commander WHILE a Jag officer. Rifle company commanders can show up with backgrounds in many MOS fields.
But I assure you, he had no, none, zero JAG duties when he commanded a company.


30 posted on 12/28/2015 6:58:00 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: centurion316; PLMerite

You guys know much more than I do about these matters.

What do you think are the odds that the Lt. Colonel was directly pressured?


31 posted on 12/28/2015 6:58:52 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: rdcbn; jwalsh07

As pointed out, MG Dahl is a JAG. His role was to lead the investigation and no doubt drafted and approved any recommendation that may have been in this report. He testified to his findings and opinion in the Article 32 Proceeding. But from a technical standpoint, he did not make a Court Martial recommendation to the Convening Authority.

I believe that he should leave the Army and become a prosecutor in Baltimore.


32 posted on 12/28/2015 6:59:11 PM PST by centurion316
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To: QT3.14

What will you bet that Obama pardons this pile of detritus on his last day in office?


33 posted on 12/28/2015 7:01:09 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: centurion316

He tried to influence the court. There is no doubt about that. I have seen that kind of thing in real time in the Army. Some commanders are not fit to command and use their rank to advance their political views at the expense of troops.

But I agree with you on Baltimore. Perfect.


34 posted on 12/28/2015 7:02:48 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: DesertRhino

Certainly, he held an Infantry MOS while in the job and had no JAG duties. We are tripping over differing terminology between Marines and Army. We call it detailing because every officer is assigned to a basic branch, but can serve in other MOS. Since the Marines don’t have a branch, you are correct. But, he was a JAG before a company commander and returned to JAG afterwards. Good idea.


35 posted on 12/28/2015 7:03:43 PM PST by centurion316
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To: vetvetdoug

Presidents Jefferson, John Adams, Herbert Hoover, do not agree.


36 posted on 12/28/2015 7:05:00 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Fightin Whitey

I doubt that he was pressured, but very likely he was influenced by this Major General JAG. He may have let the Art 32 Officer what the political climate wanted.


37 posted on 12/28/2015 7:07:33 PM PST by centurion316
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To: grcuster

A pajama party with a rope for Berg and treasonous activity involving a gallows and/or firing squad for the “pretender”.


38 posted on 12/28/2015 7:11:45 PM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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To: jwalsh07

Dahl, as a JAG, never commanded as much as a latrine detail, ever.


39 posted on 12/28/2015 7:18:57 PM PST by centurion316
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To: RetiredTexasVet
The Russian Army called the "Political Officers", we call them JAG Officers.

Maybe should suffer the same fate as the 'Political Officer' in the scene from 'Hunt for Red October'?

40 posted on 12/28/2015 7:27:38 PM PST by QT3.14 (USA is facing assisted-suicide by the Left)
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