{"id":64885,"date":"2016-03-18T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64885"},"modified":"2016-03-18T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:53:47","slug":"bergdahl-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64885","title":{"rendered":"Bergdahl excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bergdahl<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

A number of folks have sent us links to the various reports about Bowe Bergdahl who is attempting to take his case of desertion and misconduct before the enemy to the American public in an attempt to put himself in a favorable light. His lawyers put the Article 32 hearing transcript and psych evaluations on the internet<\/a> to go over the Army’s collective head. There are some doctors who are claiming that he was f***ed in the head before he walked away from his base in Afghanistan. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A document from July 2015 shows that an Army Sanity Board Evaluation determined that Bergdahl suffered from schizotypal personality disorder when he left the post. A Mayo Clinic website says people with the disorder have trouble interpreting social cues and can develop significant distrust of others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that totally excuses him from walking out into Indian country from his base thinking that he’s going to walk for days, safely, until he gets to a general where he can tattle on his chain of command. That just doesn’t sound like anything anyone would do, despite the mental health mumbo-jumbo. He had five years to come up with that excuse while he was cozy with his new Haqqani pals.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> tells about a statement that he signed when he enlisted in the Army after his aborted attempt at a Coast Guard career;<\/p>\n

\u201cI joined the Coast Guard in January of 2006. While in recruit training I had a hard time adapting to change. I had a lot going on with things at home and I do not feel that I was prepared on my own. I couldn\u2019t take care of issues at home and was able to obtain a discharge to do so. They did discharge with a reentry code of 3L. I have no ties to home anymore that would hinder my performance while in the military. I have matured and know that I am prepared to go into the Army. Please do not allow my past record to prevent me from coming into the Army.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From another Washington Post<\/a> article, Bergdahl mumbles something about his ambitions in the Army;<\/p>\n

So, stupid actions, yes. Stupid young man who wanted \u2014 I had always been a failure. The Army was \u2014 I knew the Army. I knew weapons. I knew soldiers. I knew how to do that. This was my chance to prove I wasn\u2019t just a failure.<\/p>\n

I wanted to go Special Forces. I didn\u2019t want to show up at the Q-course with some bullshit Article 15 and say, \u201cWell, I am here, just like all the other guys that want to be super cool Soldiers.\u201d I wanted to show up at the Q- 17 course saying, \u201cI deserve to be here because I have proven myself already that I am capable of doing not what Special Forces does now, but what the real founders, the real guys back in the day did then.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, he wandered off. Actually, he doesn’t sound nutty, he sounds immature. He sounds like a million other privates who think they have all of the answers and who are frustrated that their leadership won’t listen to them and their mind-droppings. I was one of them, so I know. The difference is that I never did anything dangerous to get attention for myself. Bergdahl blames his parents, blames the Army, blames the recruiters, blames his commanders and his squad leader – but none of it is his fault. When he’s in jail, he can blame his lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of folks have sent us links to the various reports about Bowe Bergdahl who is attempting to take his case of desertion and misconduct before the enemy to the American public in an attempt to put himself in a favorable light. His lawyers put the Article 32 hearing transcript and psych evaluations on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bergdahl-and-pal.jpg?fit=551%2C321&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gSx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}