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Title: Bowe Bergdahl: I Deserted My Unit to Save It
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/national-s ... nit-highlight-poor-leadership/
Published: Dec 10, 2015
Author: Mary Chastain
Post Date: 2015-12-10 17:53:40 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 641
Comments: 8
“Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don’t know, Jason Bourne. I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing,” he stated. “You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that, but I wanted to prove that I was that.” He claimed he fled his unit in order to “create a DUSTWUN – a radio signal that stands for ‘Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown’ – to highlight poor leadership within his unit.” Bergdahl knew his disappearance would cause a “hurricane of wrath” and a manhunt. He immediately realized he was “in over his head,” changed plans, and become Bourne-like by collecting “intelligence and look for the Taliban before turning himself in as a way of limiting the amount of trouble he faced.” “And what I was seeing, from my first unit all the way up into Afghanistan, all I was seeing was, basically, leadership failure, to the point that the lives of the guys standing next to me were, literally, from what I could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong and somebody being killed,” he insisted. Bergdahl said the Taliban captured him after he was lost. Between six and seven men with AK-47s approached him on motorcycles in the desert, taking him as a prisoner of war for five years. “And they pulled up and just… That was it,” he said. President Barack Obama secured Bergdahl’s release by trading him for the freedom of five Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Many conservatives and others within the Republican Party criticized the deal as liberating five dangerous jihadists in exchange for a soldier who may have committed treason. Senator Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told The Boston Herald that Bergdahl is a deserter and “would convene a hearing if the sergeant was not punished.” Bergdahl has not received word yet if his case will “go before a court-martial.” “If it comes out that he has no punishment, we’re going to have to have a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee,” explained McCain. “And I am not prejudging, O.K., but it is well known that in the searches for Bergdahl, after — we know now — he deserted, there are allegations that some American soldiers were killed or wounded, or at the very least put their lives in danger, searching for what is clearly a deserter. We need to have a hearing on that.” Six soldiers died on missions seeking intelligence on the whereabouts of or actively intending to rescue Bergdahl: Private First Class Morris Walker, Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen, Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss, Second Lieutenant Darryn Andrews, Private First Class Matthew Martinek, and Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey. A House Armed Services Committee report released this week revealed that the five Taliban jihadists released for Bergdahl have resumed “threatening activities” alongside Al Qaeda since their liberation within Qatar, and that the Qatari government is actively seeking to remove them from the country. 
Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl broke his silence about leaving his base in Afghanistan to NPR’s popular “Serial” podcast. In it, he claims he deserted his unit “to highlight poor leadership” and rapidly realized he was “in over his head.”
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
It is past time to for the military to grow a pair, convene a GCM, and get this case over with.
It does not look like that is going to happen on Øbama's watch. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
Makes you wonder if he really wasn't talking about the ROE the Obozo administration put on the troops there instead of bad leadership??? BTA he's gotta say that because he was being interviewed by the NPR propaganda channel/station... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Even so, it's still a pretty lame excuse. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
Smoking weed ... sla - patricia hearst --- yes we con - hoax - chains ! DNC - Hamas - isis - black lives matter ... rape - riot - pillage - plunder - sudden jihad syndrome --- what's the difference ! If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
No, it definitely does not. It is all political and appears headed to an SPCM and a misdemeanor conviction, time served, and keeping benefits.
And now he needs to be free to campaign for that other traitor, hillary rodham clinton.
Eli, Eli, nai erchomai Kurios Iesous.
What, go against the Sodomite In Chief and risk not getting more retirement pay? For sure you jest. You act as if the leadership of the US Military care more about honesty, morale, integrity, and the Republic than they do serving their two bit sodomite whore commander in chief. What next? The GOP actually abiding by their platform? Or maybe honoring their commitments to us, We The People? < /sarcasm> Eli, Eli, nai erchomai Kurios Iesous.
He claimed he fled his unit in order to “create a DUSTWUN – a radio signal that stands for ‘Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown’ – to highlight poor leadership within his unit.” Bergdahl knew his disappearance would cause a “hurricane of wrath” and a manhunt. He immediately realized he was “in over his head,” changed plans, and become Bourne-like by collecting “intelligence and look for the Taliban before turning himself in as a way of limiting the amount of trouble he faced.”
#2. To: nolu chan (#1)
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It is past time to for the military to grow a pair, convene a GCM, and get this case over with.
#3. To: cranky (#0)
all I was seeing was, basically, leadership failure, to the point that the lives of the guys standing next to me were, literally, from what I could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong and somebody being killed,” he insisted.
#4. To: CZ82 (#3)
BTA he's gotta say that because he was being interviewed by the NPR propaganda channel/station...
#5. To: cranky (#0)
#6. To: cranky (#2)
It does not look like that is going to happen on Øbama's watch.
#7. To: cranky (#0)
#8. To: nolu chan (#1)
It is past time to for the military to grow a pair, convene a GCM, and get this case over with.
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