That claim shows up in an article from 2009 that I read yesterday. I don’t have the link immediately available but it was when I looked up information on his godmother with whose family he lived for 3 years - Kim Harrison Dellacorva. The article claimed he had a resistant staph infection and was delayed for that reason. Dellacorva was listed on his military records as the person who should get his personal effects if anything happened to him, and she is the one who was notified by the military about his disappearance and who tried to get updates about the status of the searches for him.
The owner of the bar where he was a barista for a while said she let him come into and out of employment with her so he could do his meanderings at will. She also said that he had a group that he messaged daily, and they knew he was missing before anybody was notified about it because his daily postings just stopped. I don’t know about the conditions there in Afghanistan, but I kinda doubt they had 3G there in 2009 so the claim seemed weird to me. Maybe somebody can bring me up to speed on that.
One of the articles also mentioned a buddy of Bergdahl’s when he was a teenager and this gal said that she was getting emails from people all over the world, checking in with her to say how happy they were that Bergdahl was released. I don’t know; maybe she’s the leader of some group and people all over the world found her email address that way, but it seemed weird to me too.
One of the articles said that when Bergdahl failed to become a mercenary for the French he instead enlisted in the US military. That also made no sense. Become a mercenary for the French?
His godmother, Dellacorva, was sad that he joined the army. She ran an after-school arts school - maybe the ballet school where Bergdahl was said to be introduced to Buddhism. In the fall of 2008 she moved to Portland. Both Boise, ID and Portland have active Subud groups - and one of the Pacific-Northwest regional officers as of 2006(?) was a Harmony Harrison, from Brandon, OR. I can’t find information on whether Harmony Harrison is related to the Harrison family that Bergdahl lived with for 3 years. I can’t find any information on either Kim Harrison Dellacorva or Harmony Harrison - what their connections are. Dellacorva appears to have a son named Shane Harrison and a 25-year-old daughter named Kayla Harrison who lives in CA now.
I don’t know if any of this information is important or not, but it was interesting to me when I was reading it yesterday.
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Ping to some information you guys might find interesting. I don’t know enough to know if it’s significant or not but you guys are sleuths who could figure it out if it is.
I know a bit about Subud. The leader in Indonesia used to tell you your name should be changed and that it should start with an H or whatever. For instance you could choose from Harmony, Helena or Hazel but you had to follow his order for your “real” name so perhaps the person has changed her name.