{"id":50490,"date":"2014-06-11T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50490"},"modified":"2014-06-10T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T22:23:18","slug":"the-new-bergdahl-defense-everyone-walks-outside-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50490","title":{"rendered":"The new Bergdahl defense; everyone walks away from the FOB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to ABC News<\/a> in which they tell us that Bergdahl wasn’t the only fellow to go for a walk outside the wire in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

At least a dozen guys just walked off their posts” in Afghanistan since 2009 for a variety of reasons, said an experienced soldier, one of four Afghan war veterans familiar with the incidents who spoke to ABC News. The other sources estimated the number could be more than a dozen.<\/p>\n

The highly experienced combat veterans — whose deployments cover the entire Afghan campaign — said the significant incidents spanned a timeframe from when President Bush in late 2008 boosted conventional troop numbers in Afghanistan to well beyond President Obama’s early 2010 surge that added 30,000 more troopers to the fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They tell us about one fellow who left with an axe and some beef jerky who was scarfed up by the ANP. Then, of course, there was Robert Bales who went for a walk and murdered 16 Afghans in a nearby village. And then there was the SF dude who went joy riding with his terp – they got in a firefight with the ANP and the terp died. All of the trops involved, of course, were punished. ABC mentions that there might have been drugs involved. <\/p>\n

The soldiers discreetly slipped “outside the wire” to find drugs or were already intoxicated, left to “hang out” with local Afghan villagers or Afghan forces, or just simply snuck away without any idea where to go or what to do, the Army sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I guess that makes it OK that Bergdahl walked out because, apparently everyone goes for a walk, unarmed, outside the safety of FOBs. I feel better about Bergdahl costing untold millions of dollars and countless lives, not to mention providing a distraction from the mission in Afghanistan through a critical point in time. Thanks, ABC News!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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