Looking at his parents and his life he seems to be the last guy who would up and join the armed services.
I can’t figure this one out.
Here’s what was in the Rolling Stone article as to why he joined the Army. He was “enticed” don’t ya know. He was going to Afghanistan to help “rebuild villages” and teach them to “defend themselves”. Uh-huh.
From article: But what Bowe found in the Army, according to his parents, was a “deception” – one that started from the moment he was recruited. Bowe had been enticed to join the Army, they say, with the promise that he would be going overseas to help Afghan villagers rebuild their lives and learn to defend themselves – “the whole COIN thing,” says Bob, citing the shorthand for America’s strategy of counterinsurgency. “We were given a fictitious picture, an artificially created picture of what we were doing in Afghanistan.”
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"He was absolutely devastated when the French Foreign Legion didn't take him," Bob says. "They just didn't want an American home-schooled in Idaho. They just said no way."
Yeah, the Foreign Legion happily accepted former SS troops, but no way to home-schooled Americans from Idaho.