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riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:39 PM Jun 2014

Bergdahl Wasn't Only Soldier to 'Walk Off' Afghan Outposts

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bergdahl-soldier-walk-off-afghan-outposts/story?id=24053366

WASHINGTON - Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and fell into enemy hands for five years, but the former Taliban prisoner wasn't the only trooper to sneak out of a U.S. base in recent years, military sources told ABC News on Sunday.

"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.

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
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.
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Bergdahl Wasn't Only Soldier to 'Walk Off' Afghan Outposts (Original Post) riverwalker Jun 2014 OP
Uh oh.... DonViejo Jun 2014 #1
No but he's the only one Obama swapped gitmo detainees for tularetom Jun 2014 #2
kick Dawson Leery Jun 2014 #3
In Vietnam that was SOP Bandit Jun 2014 #4

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
1. Uh oh....
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:42 PM
Jun 2014

There goes the right wing narrative!

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.

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.
(emphasis added)

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
2. No but he's the only one Obama swapped gitmo detainees for
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:43 PM
Jun 2014

That's why he's catching such a ration of shit from the fox news sheeple crowd.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
4. In Vietnam that was SOP
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 02:27 PM
Jun 2014

Every wire had a known breach that GIs would use to visit girls or find drugs. It was extremely common and NO ONE was EVER accused of anything..Not even AWOL let alone Desertion..

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