Bergdahl investigation: no soldiers died because of him

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Markle wrote:I have never wavered that I will believe the grunts from the battle ground before I will ever trust a top General.  

We live in a free country.... You are welcome to remain as clueless as you choose.

Yes, you do go out of your way to prove you are totally clueless.  THANK YOU!

Vikingwoman wrote:

2seaoat wrote:He was simply a disturbed young man

Like a great many kids who leave high school to go into their only option....military service....which psychologically is not a good fit...do not be surprised or think this is the exception.  

There was stuff going on in his unit. Probably killing or mistreating Iraqi civilians. Bergdahl tried to go 19 miles to see the general at another base to talk to him about it. Very bad judgement but no desertion or traitoring.

PkrBum wrote:Are you making light of a soldier abandoning his post (deserting) and handing over aid to the enemy by sacrifice?

PkrBum wrote:Are you making light of a soldier abandoning his post (deserting) and handing over aid to the enemy by sacrifice?

Markle wrote:

Vikingwoman wrote:I beg your pardon but you are one of the biggest liars on this forum. You and Markle are neck in neck. The Army investigated. The Pentagon confirmed.No soldiers died as a result of looking for Bergdahl. It was simply a lie bolstered by unit members lying on Fox News.

THANK YOU!  I am honored to be put in a class with the members of his unit who lost friends needlessly searching for this deserter.

Markle wrote:For those here who fervently believe that a deserter is some kind of hero.

The 6 U.S. Soldiers Who Died Searching for Bowe Bergdahl

Mark Thompson
 June 2, 2014

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The bile surrounding his rescue is blunt on his Fort Richardson, Alaska brigade’s Facebook page:

•“I say we welcome him home with a firing squad.,” one says. “He’s a piece of trash and everyone from [Fort Richardson] knows it the only person less American than that man is the president for giving up 5 hvt’s [High-Value Targets]”
•“Now he can stand trial for deserting his post,” says one message on his unit’s Facebook page—a sentiment that has garnered 44 “likes”.
•“Do you know how many families never saw their loved ones because of him?” a third poster asked.

But those irate over Bergdahl fear that the nation has forgotten the men they say were lost in the hunt for him:

Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen, 29, of San Antonio, Texas, and Private 1st Class Morris Walker , 23, of Chapel Hill, N.C., were killed by a roadside bomb in Paktika province on Aug. 18, 2009, while trying to find Bergdahl. Like Bergdahl, they were part of the 4th BCT from Fort Richardson, Alaska.

Bowen’s mother last heard from her son the night before he died. “Clay called me around midnight to tell me I wouldn’t hear from him for a few days,” she said. She never heard from him again, although she can still hear his voice in the two CDs he recorded with the 82nd Airborne All-American Chorus. “He was the only bass in the group,” she said, “so you could always hear him.”

“What I think of first when I think of Morris is his smile because he was always smiling,” his junior-high teacher,

Wanda Bordone, told the Associated Press after he died. “He had a great sense of humor, lots of friends.”

Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss, 27, of Murray, Utah, died Aug. 26 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was shot while his unit was supporting Afghan security forces during an enemy attack. Like Bergdahl, Bowen and Walker, he was part of the 4th BCT.

“I’ll never forget you Kurt,” Adrian Ramirez a fellow soldier from Fort Richardson, posted on a memorial site. “You were my first team leader from the beginning and my squad leader to the end. I will miss you and all the memories I have shared with you.”

2nd Lieutenant Darryn Andrews, 34, of Dallas, Texas, died Sept. 4 in Paktika Province when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device and a rocket-propelled grenade. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker and Curtiss, Andrews was part of the 4th BCT.

“We grew up with an enormous amount of pride for our nation,” Andrews’ mother, Sondra, told the Amarillo Globe-News. That was understandable: his father. grandfather and uncle had served in uniform. “We passed it on to our children, never thinking we would pay the ultimate sacrifice.”

Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey, 25, of Snyder, Texas, died Sept. 6 in Paktika province after being wounded by an IED. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss and Andrews, Murphrey was part of the 4th BCT.

“On his 17th birthday his family took him skydiving and after that,” his obituary read, “he decided he wanted to be an Army paratrooper.”

On Sept. 4, 2009, Private 1st Class Matthew Martinek, 20, of DeKalb, Ill., was seriously wounded in Paktika province when Taliban forces attacked his vehicle with an improvided explosive device, a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire.

The U.S. military rushed him to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany—the same medical facility where Bergdahl is now being treated.

Bergdahl is expected to fly home to the U.S. soon for additional care and counseling.

Martinek never got that chance. He died a week after the attack—on Sept. 11.

Martinek “tried not to talk too much about what he was doing, but he said he liked helping people,” his brother, Travis Wright, told the AP.

Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss, Andrews and Murphrey, Martinek was part of the 4th BCT.

The diversion of these men and their units to the hunt for Bergdahl thinned the ranks of U.S. troops elsewhere in the region, contributing to several more American KIAs, U.S. soldiers who were there at the time believe.

Military justice can be swift and merciless, although that appears unlikely in this case. But the past cannot be erased, and it’s that legacy that gives the troops involved a markedly different view of Bergdahl and his rescue than that of most Americans sitting at home, paying scant attention to the nation’s only soldier missing in action in Afghanistan until Saturday.

The reason, for anyone who has been in combat, is pretty simple. Soldiers never forget. Civilians rarely remember.

http://time.com/2809352/bowe-bergdahl-deserter-army-taliban/

Markle wrote:Semi-retired President Obama cannot allow a desertion trial.  Since he is the Commander in Chief, and has total say so over who is promoted and who might be demoted.

President Obama also controls the US Attorney General's office.  As was proven when President Obama first took office and shut down the sentencing of the various branches of the New Black Panther Party.