Well, Iâm glad the army helped him straighten up and fly right!
My first thought was âwhy the hell did his most trusted friend release his private diaries to the press?â It turns out thereâs another article about her reasons.
FragileâŚ? I donât flaming well think so. More like sane in an goddamn insane world. The guy has my respect for walking away from the most fascist force that has ever existed on this planet - the good ole US and A.
Iâm the first to rail on the military, but if youâre gonna be stupid enough to sign up in the first place then you sure as hell better do what you signed up for once youâre there. Iâve not seen proper verification but some people are claiming some of his fellow soldiers lost their lives and/or were injured looking for this douchebag. If thatâs the case his actions are not respectable.
Every single person sensible enough not to sign up to the military has my respect.
Now, now, letâs not lose sight of the fact that this guy still isnât the Taliban sympathiser that Obama detractors are painting him as. The picture that is emerging is of a young man that thought he was destined to be a hero, and just couldnât mesh with his team. He had his troubles then, new troubles now, but he wasnât a traitor: just, well, dumb.
Cool down papa, donât you blow your top.
So, do the army and the coast guard just not talk much, or is enlisting someone with a psych discharge from another branch one of those things we started doing when meeting recruitment numbers and adhering to admissions standards were starting to become incompatible goals?
I do not wish to imply that what the coast guard does is trivial, risk-free, or without physical and psychological hardship, because it isnât; but âcouldnât hack it in the coast guardâ does not sound like an endorsement for âfrontline infantry posting, with an army that only PNAC thought was large enough, in a notoriously hostile environmentâ.
I was sure this was going to be another Cool Tools pack dump.
RAWR USA bad! You win the drama-llama award of the day.
New York Times took a look at those soldiers claimed to have died âsearchingâ.
Bascially, there were eight deaths in the entire province shortly after Bergdahl left/desertted/whatever in a time period that was especially intense all over the country.
Two were defending an outpost, not out searching.
The other six deaths were months after the initial intense search was ended: one while looking for a Taliban leader, two doing recon, three during patrols in a historical âhotbedâ of insurgents.
Yes, they were on the lookout for Bergdahl, but itâs not like they wouldnât have been out there doing the same thing anyway. Kind of hard to make a cause and effect case.
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So l33tspeak + extra spaces and a couple misspellings constitutes a âcoded messageâ now?
He might have been a fragile guy who made a series of bad decisions and not a sympathizing traitor (seems obvious since he didnât actually betray the US in any fashion), but it doesnât make the trade a good idea nor does it excuse walking away the way he did. Itâs another sad story in a terrible war
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Well it ainât a good code, but neither is it plain text.
Maybe itâs enough to stop these guys:
Cool, thanks for clearing that up. For me it still doesnât change the fact that he almost certainly put his fellow soldiers in more of harmâs way by his actions. Iâm not a big fan of soldiers or the military, but I am a big fan of doing what you say youâll do, especially when not doing so could mean other people losing their health or life.
Might keep the message from getting vacuumed up by automated keyword monitoring.
It just means that he decided to walk away instead of the option that thousands/hundreds? of fellow soldiers in the same mindset take â suicide.
Yeah⌠walking into barren parts of Earth with minimal equipment while in an altered state of mind is suicide. He got âluckyâ getting captured before he died of one of many, many potential ways.
Thank you.
