Oh, well, then…
CNN is reporting that Bowe Bergdahl told Army investigators that he left his forward operating base unarmed, after he sent his personal possessions home, to report malfeasance in his unit;
Bergdahl was planning to report what he believed to be problems with “order and discipline” in his unit, a senior Defense official tells CNN. A second official says Bergdahl had “concerns about leadership issues at his base.”
This information is part of the report presented to General Mark Milley who this week decided to charge Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. This information outlines what could be a key part of Bergdahl’s defense, which the army is already aware of.
Both officials declined to be identified because of the legal proceedings against Berghahl, but both have direct knowledge of the information outlined in the report. “This was a kid who had leadership concerns on his mind,” the second official said. “He wasn’t fed up, he wasn’t planning to desert.”
What Bergdahl’s concerns were, and whether they are relevant to the case of desertion the Army is trying to make will be a matter for military authorities to decide. “I can’t tell you if his concerns were valid, but in his mind they were,” the official said.
Oh, well, sure, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If I was a stank ass hippie with no understanding what it’s like to be in a forward operating base in the middle of Indian country. The statement continues that it was never his intention to desert, but rather walk, using the wilderness skills from his childhood to make his way across the desert to a place somewhere out there that he could confront a general about leadership problems that the young PFC felt were confounding the mission of his unit.
Of course, anyone who has ever been a PFC in the Army knows how ridiculous that whole scenario sounds. There’s nothing about how far was the next base with a flag officer on it, but I’m sure it was more than an evening stroll away. He also knew that his actions, if indeed true, would send his unit out looking for him and put them in danger. His intent here is irrelevant, he left left his place of duty while involved in combat operations. Only a stank ass hippie lawyer would see this excuse as mitigating circumstances.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
He’s full of shit and should get life in front of a firing squad.
Fucking stank ass hippie fuckstain pile of monkey nuts.
“He’s full of shit and should get life in front of a firing squad.”
*slow clap, standing*
Waste of a bullet. Rope is reusable.
Waste of rope. A match is cheaper.
I’m sure the Tallies were genuinely concerned about leadership issues at his base. Dude’s full of more shit than a sewage processing plant.
Hang on a sec, that’s what I learned in Basic Training too when I went thru.
Your chain of command for concerns is Team Leader, Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant/Leader, then Taliban, then 4-star General or civilian equivalent.
Even SP8 Moersk kind of used the same chain. You guys didn’t get that briefing in Basic?
well there was no internet at his FOB so he couldn’t go full Moerk.
He had to improvise, adapt and overcome.
At least that’s what his Idaho wilderness survival skills told him he should do.
A Bergdahl Moerk chain of command comparison? Eric wins the internet!
It is not limited to the Army. WTF does this asshole know about leadership. Like any E1-E3 has even 10% of the total information that is needed to make any informed decision. He has not even had a fucking cup of coffee in the Army yet, and his balls as well as behind his ears are not even dry yet.
I guess in his VAST experience he is totally qualified, to burn shit, that is.
I was under the understanding that this type of discharge was closed door event ???? If so is it normal during a UCMJ to here about it all over the media.?????
Whwn the CinC has a vested interest in pressuring the court so he can try to avoid looking like a clueless idiot – yes, yes it is.
So Bergdahl wants us to believe he deserted his unit in a combat zone to report disciplinary problems with that unit. Yeah, sounds plausible…to a moron.
I could only imagine what the Potential conversation with GO would have been like:
Bergdik: Sir there are serious problems at my OP!
GO: really son, like what?
Bergdik: well for instance CPL Wilcox spends a lot of time in the “Portashitter” beatin off sir!
GO: Well that doesn’t rank of a discplinary problem son.
Bergdik: No, I suppose it doesn’t I just feel offended when I’m in the Portashitter beaten off knowing that CPL WIlcox was in here already. Plus SGT Ramirez told me I looked weird and don’t read good sir!
So, that hack Brandon Friedman was right. It wasn’t Bergdahl’s fault. It was because he had poor leadership. He was a PFC after all. He would know all about leadership. Riiiiiiiiight….uh huh.
“I can’t tell you if his concerns were valid, but in his mind they were,” the official said.
Yea sure. In every Private’s mind, what THEY think is valid, is what counts. After all I remember in my long ago time, there was always a GO, WAAAAY out front somewhere with his binoculars, looking for intel and status of mission. Plus we were all told, “The General has a full Open Door Policy, if you troops need anything”. (Snark) In that time and at my E-1 rank, the only open doors I ever saw were on the firebase shithouses and it was always available for all of us Privates to go in and…”clear our heads”, as the Top told us.
How’s about giving Birdshit a hearty handshake and a warm cup of soup before that climb up the steps to the trapdoor and noose?
I laughed and laughed because my CG would have been the closest one. Not surprised GEN Milley opted for a swift kick in the ass and charges as he was the DCG-O up in Bagram with the 101 and had TOAed with 82 just prior to dipshit deserting. If Bergdahl or his lawyer have any sense they keep this story for media and leftard consumption only, and don’t drop it in the CM proceedings.
Who in their right mind leaves a fire base and expects to get somewhere on foot in a combat zone? I mean really?
Ohh, and by the way, I’m sure a general officer from battalion visited the base, so I’m not sure why he felt the need to go on a walkabout.
Hang him and get it over with. ( Won’t happen, I know, but one can hope)
One does that if they’re a shit-for-brained hippie expecting it’s “aura and karma” to protect itself! He ought to be held accountable for those killed and wounded while looking for him during his Court Martial proceedings.
I only wonder how much thicker and laughable Bowe Bergdahl’s BULLSHIT excuses will get from here on? He’s already at least fifty times more full of shit than a flock of ten thousand geese!
“anyone who has ever been a PFC in the Army knows how ridiculous that whole scenario sounds.”
I’ve never been in the military and that crap had my Bullshit Detector on red alert.
“Of course, anyone who has ever been a PFC in the Army knows how ridiculous that whole scenario sounds.”
Or an Airman in the Navy. 😉
And Bergdahl’s lawyer is so full of shit his eyes are brown. His Delta Tau Chi name is “Walking Eagle” ’cause he’s too full of shit to fly.
Based on this information and the fact that he did “serve with honor and distinction” he should set free.
Oh … Set free in Yeman, Syria, Afganistan or Pakistan.
Set free, 300 Nautical Miles south of the Azores wearing a meat vest.
Forget the vest. There’s a ship out there that could use the meat.
His lawyers are idiots. The public may swallow this line whole, but those folks sitting on his jury during his court martial won’t be so easily swayed with this story.
Imagine in the COC:
“Gunny, there’s a PFC out here who wants a word with you about how you are doing it wrong”
Yeah, well, let’s just say that all this is actually true. So? Doesn’t change a thing about his having deserted.
Whatever.
When I was a PFC I saw the general once…On TV
And about “wilderness skills from childhood;” I just now, literally this very night whence I type, walked out of the bayou after shooting a tilapia and three gar with my bow. I grew up in swamps and forests. I was a forward observer in the Army. And I wouldn’t have a snowden-ball’s chance in hell of navigating across a foreign land without a map, compass, and clear target. This is such a bizarre press statement. I feel for the lawyer that has to defend this dude. Talk about mission impossible.
I could easily navigate across a foreign land without map, compass or target. I just would not have any idea where I was navigating too or where I was other than a general idea from looking at a map when I left to fix landmarks in my head.
I take your point, however. This doofus probably thought he was in Colorado. His lawyers are doing their job and throwing up Hail Mary’s at a tremendous clip. Good luck with that
And then there is this little reminder they is beat into every soldiers brain from the Reception Station forward:
General Order 1
I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved.
General Order 2
I will obey my special orders and perform all of my duties in a military manner.
General Order 3
I will report violations of my special orders, emergencies, and anything not covered in my instructions to the commander of the relief.
“Both officials declined to be identified because of the legal proceedings against Berghahl, but both have direct knowledge of the information outlined in the report.”
Well, isn’t that just precious. And so is this quote, attributed to one of those sources: “This was a kid who had leadership concerns on his mind….” A kid? Who are these insider “sources?” I believe there is only one but CNN refers to more than one for cover. Likely, the source is someone who has been firmly in the Bergdahl Camp for quite some time and probably referred to Bergdahl as “kid” a number of times to others in his legal circle. He may have had an advisory role in the Milley considerations, either directly, arguing for Bergdahl, or indirectly, in support of whoever took the Bergdahl/Obama role in the arguing. I lean heavily toward the former.
And another new article on CNN about all this:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/29/politics/bowe-bergdahl-defense-disputed-by-platoon/index.html
Bergdahls unit (my old unit) was regularly running runs to the FOB he supposedly was trying to hike to.
Interestingly enough, is that the very first investigation made.. was that he tried to make contact with the Taliban that same night he left. Maybe he needed direction.
Perfectly feasible story…
Yeah, not so much. Lawyers are simply prepping the battlespace with cockamamie stories because they just need to keep his back off the wall and his feet off the trapdoor. This one will be a mess…his mail will be forwarded to Kansas soon enough.
You have to realise that this POS comes from one of the biggest bastions of libtardism in Idaho,I know, I live here (not Hailey, Boise), but as we Idahoans are growing up, we are taught not to go near that part of the state, its reseved for the political and well funded elite, a rich winterplayground if you will.His stank azz hippy tribal leaders,spent many hours indoctrinating this mouth breather in their libtard ways. His defense is weak,his excuse is weak, I for one would love to see his name erased from the rolls of the Army, forever……of course, their will always be someone who will have open arms for a HUGE POS like this kid.