Bergdahl had deserted before & officers KNEW he was a risk: Classified report reveals Army’s fears..
The London Daily Mail ^ | June 4, 2014 | Michael Zennie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163574/posts
A U.S. Army investigation found that Bowe Bergdahl had walked away from his post at least once before his capture - and that other soldiers in his unit knew he was a flight risk.
The 2010 report, called an AR15-6, is still classified, but it appears to confirm allegations that the former prisoner of war violated military regulations - and that the Pentagon knew it all along.
The revelation, attributed to anonymous sources by the Military Times, comes as the nation’s top general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, acknowledged the growing cloud of suspicion hanging over Bergdahl.
The Military Times report says that investigators who looked into the June 2009 capture of Bergdahl found that several soldiers from his unit said he had talked openly about wanting to leave the forward operating base where he was stationed.
They found he may have left the base at least once before, as well.
‘We have no indication that he intended to leave permanently,’ an official told the Military Times.
However, a different source described as a former senior military official, told the New York Times that Bergdahl left a startling note in his tent saying that he no longer supported the Army mission in Afghanistan and that he was leaving to start a new life.
Even amid the mounting evidence that Bergdahl left his post, military law experts told the Military Times that it was unlikely Bergdahl would be court martialed and imprisoned....
If true, then the UCMJ isn't worth spit, get rid of it and allow anarchy to rule the ranks. No order, no discipline.
An SP falling asleep at his post can just accept NJP and not worry about doing any hard time. A deserter in the face of war isn't that big of a deal, it's not like it affects the morale, order and discipline of those around him, right? And when you catch him, just him it's okay, you "understand" and send him to a hospital to "decompress" while his "buddies" have to do with one less trooper to pull his weight.
A trooper who left his post unguarded, which could have provided the enemy the one advantage they needed to infiltrate that OP.
That bastard needs to face the full force and effect of the UCMJ and the desertion charges.
Did the Red Cross ever contact the Red Crescent ? Did DOD ever contact the Red Cross as to bergdahl's status ? If not he was never a Prisoner of War Was he ever visited by the Red Crescent ?