For those of you who don't know, PFC Bowe Bergdahl was
captured by enemy soldiers in Afghanistan in early June. I've kept up with the
story pretty well, as he is with the 501st Infantry Battalion which is
stationed in Ft. Richardson, AK. I was on that post with the 509th Infantry
Battalion and I knew several people in the 501st very well. It's a small post,
and we were a tight family, however I wasn't allowed to deploy with them
because I lost a lot of my hearing as a 50 cal gunner during train up for the deployment.
One of my friends that was deployed to Afghanistan called me
up a couple weeks ago telling me that he had been sent back to Alaska, because
his sight on his weapon had been shot and shattered into his neck. He was fine,
and would be 100% soon, but they didn't want him out in the field, so they sent
him home for a few weeks. He had gotten these injuries out on a patrol trying
to find Bowe Bergdahl.
He then went into the story of exactly how everything had
happened from the perspective of a soldier in the same unit as the kid that was
"captured." I was cool with keeping it to myself until I saw this
video, where PRESIDENT OBAMA sympathizes with this little bastard, and now I
feel the need to spread the word to at least SOMEONE so that you guys can understand
how ludicrously the media fabricates their stories, and so you guys don't feel
pity for this fucking jackass.
Bowe Bergdahl was stationed in Helmand Province, which is
slightly northwest of where my platoon was stationed, in a province on the Pakistani
border, Khost. Upon the news that there was a missing soldier, my platoon had
to take on an enormous responsibility. The captors would almost surely be
trying to smuggle Bergdahl across the Pakistani border, because American
soldiers aren't allowed to cross it, so it's a sanctuary for them. My platoon
was one of several assigned to large Observation Points, or OPs tht stretch the
length of the border. As they sat out on top of their assigned ridgeline for
hours and hours, news started trickling in about what exactly had happened.
This is exactly how it went down, told to me by the people that where there.
Any number of things could have happened to Bergdahl to make
him want to leave, coming back from mid-tour leave and being upset about being
in Afghanistan again, getting yelled at by a sergeant, tired of the poor living
conditions that they had over there, but the difference between him and REAL
soldiers is that they put up with it. You suck it up and you drive on, because
there is simply nothing that you can do. Bergdahl had simply walked off base to
try and find his way home, thinking that this was a legitimate solution. You
are not allowed to leave the perimeter of the base without your body armor,
helmet, and a weapon. Bergdahl had left all of these things behind, so as to
not appear hostile, and had just walked off. His platoon had all his things
that he left behind to prove it.
My platoon had been getting engaged all day while walking
out to their OP, a few miles away, and that was when my friend was wounded, but
he sat up in the OP with the rest of them watching and waiting for Bergdhals
captors to come through the pass, as they most likely would. On paper, no one
saw anything that night, and no one will pursue it further. Maybe someone
"fell asleep" on guard and missed some things, maybe not. When you're
in a war-zone, and some douchebag does something that puts you and your friends
lives in danger, lets just say I wouldn't expect that kid to come home anytime
soon, because it's not just the Taliban that want to put a bullet in his head.
Moral of the story: The media portrays things completely
wrong at levels that a lot of us can't comprehend. I've seen stories of
Bergdahl doing things worthy of the Medal of Honor while being captured.
They've reported about 10 different heroic versions of the story to let
everyone in on what a sacrifice he made, and how we should all love him. The
truth is he couldn't hack it and was trying to ABANDON his fellow soldiers in
the middle of a deployment. Just don't instantly assume that the news is right
about what they're saying, because if they're willing to turn a giant pussy
into a hero, then they'll be just as willing to turn a hero into a bad person.
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