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Home Front: WoT
Bergdahl's Defense Is He Was Planning to Come Back
2015-03-28
Oh brother....

Laundry to pick up? Sexual Harassment classes to attend? Pay-day loans to square away ?

Walking to a nearby Forward Operations Base (FOB) to report 'order and discipline' problems within his unit.

Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169

#7  In the old days, if you kept your ID card, it was accepted as evidence of intent to return, reducing the charge from desertion to AWOL. No ticky, no washy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-28 09:58  

#6  U.S. Army smackdown and Presidential pardon in 5...4...3...2

Not sure. Possibly more a plea deal.

Then a President pardon.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-03-28 08:55  

#5  He also expressed overall anger and resentment about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and the way it was being executed. "I am sorry for everything," he wrote. "The horror that is America is disgusting."

Fidell doesn’t deny Bergdahl wrote those e-mails, but argues in his memo that Bergdahl was a naïve and sometimes misguided young man.


Seems like he joined the Army to fix it. His father is probably still proud of him.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-03-28 08:25  

#4  U.S. Army smackdown and Presidential pardon in 5...4...3...2
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-03-28 06:26  

#3  That's not even a good lie. Howzabout I was on a deep cover mission for the CIA to infiltrate the Taliban. Hence the note. But the op went south and now the CIA is hanging me out. Srsly, dude, you need a more creative defense lawyer.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-03-28 01:27  

#2  Oh I believe he planned to come back....only with a couple hundred of his new buddies!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-03-28 01:26  

#1  Yeah, and Brett Favre's planning a comeback...
Posted by: Raj   2015-03-28 00:52  

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