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| Taliban: American soldier "captured" in June '09 has joined the Taliban cause |
| 2010-08-23 |
| I remember some folks here were suspicious about his covenient capture. The only known American soldier in Taliban captivity is training fighters in bombmaking and ambush, according to information reported Sunday from one of his captors and the Afghan intelligence agents working to free him. Article @ link. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #3 CNN video about him. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-08-23 19:15 |
| #2 Y'all might want to know this fact, I was enlisted at the E-3 Rank because I had a valuable skill I was a Machinist before I enlisted. That culd account for the oddity in rank, everybody does NOT start at E-1. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-08-23 18:53 |
| #1 Bowe Bergdahl was a 23 year old PFC (promoted in absentia last June to SP4.) This is rather old for a PFC, who typically get this rank after four months time-in-grade as a Private (E-2) and 12 months time-in-service, with average age of 19.5 years old. So this means he either enlisted at a later age, or was busted from a higher rank. If he was a late enlistee, it would be very interesting to see what he did for 3-4 years before enlisting. Made more so by his family not commenting at all about him to the media. Rather atypical. And how many PFCs know how to "dismantle a Nokia mobile telephone and turn it into a remote control for roadside bombs"? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-08-23 16:40 |