Private Bowe Bergdahl - where is he now?

[San Marino]

'The USA vs Bargdahl', 2017, on Amazon Prime Video.

"On November 2017, he was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank to private and fined $1,000 per month from his pay for ten months, with no prison time."

Interesting documentary but biased in my opinion. New information and perspective. Interview with top military and civilian officials. The film was made by someone who was also a prisoner for 4 months (reporter). Critical information was left out as the director tries to paint Bargdahl under a positive light. So, according to Bargdahl, he was going to walk 12 miles to another U.S. outpost to make a complaint about his chain-of-command. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. ...and we are still left in the dark about what the complaint was. Also, a 6' x 6' x 7' cage is not a cage, it is a cell -- and the part where a SERE instructor comes to tears, in the trial, describing Bargdahl as an exemplary POW, except he sucked as a soldier. Didn't Bargdahl have any complaints to make about his captors?

 

[HARRISON_3]

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/what-happened-to-all-the-2000s-rappers.4121167/unread

 

[IloveTHIS]

cliffs?

 

[JabToucher]

cliffs?

 

[San Marino]

cliffs?

Cliffs to what?
Do you not know who PFC Bowe Bergdahl was (is)?

 

[lsa]

why did you have to post white cliffs?

 

[JabToucher]

why did you have to post white cliffs?

Don't grass me up to mods bro!

 

[IloveTHIS]

Cliffs to what?
Do you not know who PFC Bowe Bergdahl was (is)?

no.....obviously not. thats why Im asking for cliffs. who is/was bro

if that was a male cliff and I was a femalez cliff I would totally let that mountain fuck me. raw.

 

[lsa]

Don't grass me up to mods bro!

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[Henry Swanson]

cliffs?

From Wikipedia

Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan after he deserted.

Bergdahl was captured after deserting his post on June 30, 2009. The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing and how he was captured by the Taliban have since become subjects of intense media scrutiny. He was released on May 31, 2014, as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban memberswho were being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

Bergdahl was tried by general court-martial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy,[8] and on October 16, 2017, he entered a guilty plea before a military judge at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.[9] On November 3, 2017, he was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank to private and fined $1,000 per month from his pay for ten months, with no prison time.[10] The fine and reduction in rank took effect immediately, while the discharge was stayed pending automatic appeal.

 

[San Marino]

no.....obviously not. thats why Im asking for cliffs. who is/was bro

Where were you in May of 2014?

Bowe Bergdahl
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowe_Bergdahl
"Robert Bergdahl was a U.S. Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haggani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan after he deserted. Bergdahl was captured after deserting his post on June 30, 2009. The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing and how he was captured by the Taliban have since become subjects of intense media scrutiny. He was released on May 31, 2014, as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban members who were being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay."

 

[IloveTHIS]

Where were you in May of 2014?

Bowe Bergdahl
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowe_Bergdahl
"Robert Bergdahl was a U.S. Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haggani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan after he deserted. Bergdahl was captured after deserting his post on June 30, 2009. The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing and how he was captured by the Taliban have since become subjects of intense media scrutiny. He was released on May 31, 2014, as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban members who were being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay."

abandoned his post? what a fucking coward

 

[San Marino]

Abandoned his post? What a fucking coward.

Not according to Bergdahl. He was going to come back. Like I mentioned on post #1, he was not a 'happy' soldier and wanted to make a complaint. So, he decided he was going to walk 12 miles to the next U.S. outpost and report on some of his superiors. Naive, idealistic, and stupid. Paid a heavy price. He was lucky not to have been killed by the enemy or friendly forces in the neighboring U.S. outpost (that would have made it a night approach on foot).

 

[Violencia]

Fuck that guy.

 

[IloveTHIS]

Not according to Bergdahl. He was going to come back. Like I mentioned on post #1, he was not a 'happy' soldier and wanted to make a complaint. So, he decided he was going to walk 12 miles to the next U.S. outpost and report on some of his superiors. Naive, idealistic, and stupid. Paid a heavy price. He was lucky not to have been killed by the enemy or friendly forces in the neighboring U.S. outpost (that would have made it a night approach on foot).

What was he tryna rat on his squad for?

 

[San Marino]

On June 27, 2009, Bergdahl sent an e-mail to his parents before he was captured:

"Mom and dad, the future is too good to waste on lies. ...as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting. My battalion commander is a conceited old fool. The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. The US Army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at. I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting."

 

[San Marino]

What was he tryna rat on his squad for?

We don't know. The documentary does not cover it. His fellow soldiers don't go into it. Bergdahl himself will not talk about it. I'm sure it has something to do with what he experienced in Afghanistan with his unit's leadership. Check post #16 which quotes a letter he sent home in 2009. Bergdahl was discharged from the U.S. Cost Guard in 2006 for psychological (mental disability) reasons. He had a medical waiver to join the U.S. Army in 2008. Big mistake by the Army, but it needed new recruits to fill its quota and fight a war. Specially guys in the Infantry.

 

[San Marino]

 

[JSN]

That guy doesn't have both oars in the water. Season 2 of Serial was trash because his whole story isn't very interesting. He's a weird space cadet and that's pretty much that.

 

[DoomPatrol]

Not according to Bergdahl. He was going to come back. Like I mentioned on post #1, he was not a 'happy' soldier and wanted to make a complaint. So, he decided he was going to walk 12 miles to the next U.S. outpost and report on some of his superiors. Naive, idealistic, and stupid. Paid a heavy price. He was lucky not to have been killed by the enemy or friendly forces in the neighboring U.S. outpost (that would have made it a night approach on foot).

I don't buy that defense he gives about trying to report his command. He apparently had multiple opportunities to do that without risk. He also packed up his personal belongings and mailed them home, leaving his serialized gear for the soldiers to find on the base.

Personally I think he was disillusioned by the war and their role there and went to look for the Taliban. He likely didn't get the open arms welcome he thought he was going to receive and had a few years to think about his new excuse for leaving. I think he thought he would be well treated as a defector to their cause and instead they put in him chains and captured him.

We had some jackass Marine try to run away from a patrol base in Iraq. I'm not sure if he was legitimately crazy or playing it up to get out of combat to get sent home, but he tried to walk right off the post into an Iraqi city. It was like a guaranteed beheading at the time. I don't know what he was thinking. Obviously the guys on post at the gate wouldn't let him leave. They ended up detaining him and eventually dude got sent home for mental health reasons. Nice enough guy, but I seriously don't understand why he did that shit.