5.How did Bergdahl wind up in Taliban hands?
Bergdahl wasn’t captured during a mission — he instead appears to have wandered off-base and then been captured — and he was initially listed as “duty status unknown,” not “missing/captured.”
The circumstances could beg the question: was Bergdahl captured, did he desert, or did he go looking for the Taliban?
Intelligence sources have said Bergdahl was drunk when terrorists picked him up — hardly a heroic capture, if that’s true.
Military members have expressed mixed reactions to Bergdahl’s release — there’s no consensus that he was a war hero, or even a POW in the first place.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...tmo-prisoners/
There are so many problems just with this small paragraph.
You can't wander off base. It is Impossible!!! You can leave the base (sometime but very rarely) but it can't be done by mistake.
He was drunk. Every soldier I know had to sign orders saying we would not violate General Order Number One. General Order Number One Prohibits any soldier from consuming alcohol of any kind. Do soldiers always do what they are supposed to? NO BUT alcohol was not readily accessible as far as I knew.
1. He should always let somebody know where he was or where he was going. If he would have done this they would have asked him a couple important questions. Are you drunk? Where are you going? Why? Who is going with you? These are questions that I was asked hundreds of times a day (not the drunk part).
2. After leaving the base he should have known exactly where he was going and avoid any restricted areas. So let me explain. Sometimes under a commander's discretion you could leave the base if the area was not actively hostile for a certain period of time. Nobody's been shot at for a few months and the town next to the base seems cooperative then the commander can allow certain sections to be approved. For instance most towns have a outdoor mall type of setup where you can go and buy DVD's/sunglasses/lots of other cheap stuff that is worthless. But even if this was the case the commander would order ALL others areas besides the shops off limits.
3. He was drunk. Let's say he didn't do tell anybody where he was going and then he went to some place besides the market. If he did this while he was drunk, he deserved what he got. I know that sounds cruel but everybody over there knows how dangerous it is. It is drilled in you head day and night before you ever get in country that you are not to get into a situation where you are away from your fellow soldiers and around a bunch of Afghanis.
I will stop ranting. But it does seem he is really, really stupid or something fishy was going on. I don't know if I even could believe his story.
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