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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAccording to Military.com<\/a>, lawyers have switched gears from him leaving his post to report his platoon’s leadership for malfeasance to wondering how the Army allowed him to enlist in the first place;<\/p>\n [Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl’s lead lawyer] said that “given the circumstances surrounding Sgt. Bergdahl’s entry-level separation from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Army’s subsequent decision to enlist him with a waiver was improvident.”<\/p>\n Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard in 2006 after only 26 days in basic training, reportedly because of his psychological state. In his letter, Fidell described Bergdahl as “na\u00efve and at times unrealistic.”<\/p>\n Bergdahl joined the Army in 2008 at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In that same year, the Army War College reported that as many as one in five recruits was allowed to enlist with a waiver for health or other reasons, including arrest records.<\/p>\n The Washington Post last June, citing a senior Army official, reported that the Army was aware of Bergdahl’s previous administrative discharge from the Coast Guard when he joined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, 2008 wasn’t “at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan”. The surge in Iraq had ended…quite successfully, I might add. “Na\u00efve and at times unrealistic” doesn’t disqualify recruits, unless there’s something new. I’m sure that it wouldn’t require a waiver, though. The lawyers are just grasping at straws now, and they look pretty funny doing it. Before he was Bergdah’s lawyer, Fidell was advocating<\/a> that Bergdahl shouldn’t be punished at all, you know, despite the fact that US troops died looking for his criminal ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"