Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl was fed up. He was five weeks into a deployment in southeastern Afghanistan and frustrated with his mission and his leaders. He and his fellow soldiers weren’t going after the Taliban as aggressively as he wanted, and his sense of disillusion added to the disgust for the Army that he had begun developing while still in basic training.
Looking to make a stand, Bergdahl hatched a plan: He would run away from his platoon’s tiny outpost in Paktika province late on June 29, 2009. He would stay away from the Army a day, maybe two, and then reappear about 19 miles away at a larger installation and demand to air his grievances with a general. He knew that the region was crawling with insurgents, but he had “outsize impressions of his own capabilities,” according to an investigating officer, and was determined to create enough chaos to get the attention of senior commanders.
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I have served on a court-martial board, and if I were sitting in judgment of Bergdahl I would have to conclude the facts of the case (as presented in the MSM) suggest that he is guilty of being AWOL, but not desertion.
However, the true facts when known may suggest otherwise.
In any case, this apparent excuse of his sounds like utter horseshit. You don't go AWOL so you can talk to senior commanders and tell them they're AFU. If that was his "plan", he also is guilty of insubordination.
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