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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBergdahl Wasn't Only Soldier to 'Walk Off' Afghan Outposts
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bergdahl-soldier-walk-off-afghan-outposts/story?id=24053366WASHINGTON - 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
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DonViejo
(60,536 posts)1. Uh oh....
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)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.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)2. No but he's the only one Obama swapped gitmo detainees for
That's why he's catching such a ration of shit from the fox news sheeple crowd.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. kick
Bandit
(21,475 posts)4. In Vietnam that was SOP
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..