on all those that wanted this SOLDIER pilloried and then drawn and quartered. SHAME!!!!!! WELCOME HOME SGT. BERGDAHL. Not from a patriotic point of view, just from a brother in arms point of view. I don't feel very patriotic these days.

Which is still possible. He made a remarkable recovery for someone on his death bed.

a court-martial?

If he is found to have left the post on his own accord then they need to give him an opportunity to explain himself and see if his explanation is acceptable or not.

I figure that has been reviewed by now. If he is found to have been derelict in his duty, he should face punishment. Yet knowing the military psychologists and their ability to interrogate when it doesn't seem like interrogation, he's in the clear. I just am sickened by those who judged, tried and executed him before the whole incident was investigated. People who rushed to judgement on Sgt. Bergdahl are the same type of person that gave the bush administration administration SOME of it's flawed rationale that got us into these meaningless incursions in the first place. They are not the type of people I want judging ANY situation where life is put into harms way.

And 90 percent of the first. I am not sure the investigation before POW had been completed. However a lot of folks were horrible towards the family for no reason at all.

Per the article, the investigation is still ongoing, and he has yet to be interviewed by the chief investigator.

There have been two tracks - recovery and investigation. Until this point, recovery has super-ceded investigation.

Its really just beginning now, as he is 'clear for duty', and the investigation will begin in earnest.

I have no idea how it will turn out, but I would not interpret this latest move to indicate the investigation is nearing its end...rather the opposite.

they've said this..

there is no proof. just hearsay like Swift boaters and John Kerry

...is justice. I have defended his RIGHT to justice under the UCMJ since this started from those who wanted him

Fragged
Summarily executed
Left with the Taliban
Bombed by our own forces
Rescued and then shot in the desert
And much, much more...

and none of these sees the irony in defending America as somehow "better" while howling for Bergdahl's head absent an investigation and a formal legal finding of guilt.

If the military justice system finds he deserted, then to hell with him. Until that time, I'll reserve judgment. So should we all.

platoon mates in danger, and they know it. He was previously found mentally unfit for military service, and they waivered him and put him on the front lines--a huge mistake, no different than putting someone with a known heart defect, or kidney disease, or seizures on the front line in combat. They had to get him back, because THEY put him in that very wrong situation to begin with. The Army will eventually quietly discharge him, he will most likely not face any discipline more than administrative-type punishment. Your dream of watching this poor guy "get his" isn't going to happen, because mental illness is a very real condition, and those types of people often can't handle the stress of everyday life, let alone combat in one of the ugliest years of the Afghanistan war. As to his condition, the Taliban was warned last winter not to starve him or the deal was off, so they fattened him up--mostly for propaganda. The photo of him "smiling" early in his captivity shows an extremely gaunt young man, he looks like a concentration camp victim standing beside his captor. Just ridiculous, the spew I read about this poor man on a DEMOCRATIC website.

Boykin has already convicted him in his far-right "mind."

Jerry Boykin Wants To Know Why The US Didn't Kill Bowe Bergdahl

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 7/14/2014 10:29 am

Yesterday, The Daily Caller posted an interview that Ginni Thomas conducted with the Family Research Council's Jerry Boykin in which he called for President Obama to be impeached over the Veterans Affairs scandal and Benghazi while wondering why captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was not killed by the US government like Anwar al-Awlaki had been. As Boykin sees it, the trade of five Taliban leaders in exchange for Bergdahl's return was "so phony" because Bergdahl was a known deserter who was no different than al-Awlaki. "Al-Awlaki was an American citizen," Boykin said. "He was assassinated by the Obama administration because he was a traitor, he had turned on America. I'm glad he's dead. I have no issue with that. But what's the different between al-Awlaki and Bowe Bergdahl?" Saying that Bergdahl had already been found guilty of desertion by the military, for which the punishment is death, Boykin declared that "there's no logic" to the swap "except that this was all about closing Guantanamo and they had to have the sequence of events unfold the way they did so they could release these five people out of Guantanamo":

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jerry-boykin-wants-know-why-us-didnt-kill-bowe-bergdahl#sthash.R3hwuFPo.dpuf

When are they transferring him to Guantanamo to be locked up with his Taliban brethren?

He had not weeks after he was released.

to his parents.

I think it is up to him to choose how he wishes to communicate with his family, and not our business.

as I can't afford to leave .. and he's in the same bloody house. now how the hell am I expecting the above to happen (dads tea party, I assume he thinks I'm radical left. I'm not. and some here would know I'm a bit of both right and left mostly left. Right wing section would be some of my religion and some of illegal immigrants (mostly because I know a few LEGAL immigrants and they resent illegals more than I do.

but yes bit off topic. )

I keep thinking the delay in reunification may hinge on the religious questions. His parents raised the kids in complete homeschooled religious immersion.

He was/is an intelligent guy. I wonder if seeing the utter religious immersion of the Taliban didn't provoke some real angst. It would for me. He has to see the parallels. If he's come out of this experience an atheist, he may be mentally unwilling and/or unprepared to endure their Jesus talk anymore.

Or....

I presume he was under enormous pressure to convert as well while a Taliban prisoner. If he did convert to save his life he may also be reluctant to face that yet with his uber religious parents.

Seems like the Army might not have bought into the smears about Sgt. Bergdahl by the
right wing who can never let something positive happen on President Obama.

Benghazi
Bergdahl's name is suspiciously similar to Benghazi
So therefore they're right

And even if they aren't... What about the birth certificate?

The atacks on Sgt. Bergdahl and his family were shameful and un-American.

But they'll never admit it, the media (for the most part) won't hold them accountable, thjey'll just move on to the new talking point

Goebbels does not find this newsworthy.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a Sargent. If the army was looking only at him, a Captain or other officer SENIOR to him (and that is ALL Commissioned Officers) could be assigned to do the investigation. The only restriction is that the investigating office MUST be SENIOR to anyone who MAY be CHARGED.

Thus why is a MAJOR GENERAL doing the investigation? Major General is a two star General (Outranking Brigadier General, but lower then Lieutenant General, a "Full" General and not used since WWII General of the Army. That implies that someone is looking into some Colonel's actions in the case, or more likely inaction. Why was Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl permitted to take the walks he was captured on? Was he armed, or unarmed? (I believe the reports was he was unarmed, but then why was he NOT restricted to barracks OR required to take a weapon with him?).

Something is up, and I do NOT think it is a Court Martial of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. If he should be Court Martial has already been decided for those facts are well known. i.e. He took walks when things became to stressed for him, for it was a way to relieve that stress. That is understandable and not on its face illegal. The real issue was he told NOT to take these walks. Then that would be a simple case of disobeying orders. If he was permitted to take such walks in areas where the Taliban were active, why did he NOT have a weapon? Remember he had taken such walks BEFORE and always came back, thus his command structure knew or should have known of this tendency and addressed it. I suspect that is why a Major General is in charge of the investigation, who issued what rules on the issuance of weapons AND what restrictions on movement of the troops, were imposed on the troops by whom. Issuing such restrictions on movement AND distribution of weapons is at least a Captain's job, and in most cases a Colonel's.

Now the actual insurances of weapons and imposing the restrictions on movement are done by the NCOs, but the overall rules are set by the command structure. i.e. your Sargent may be able to release you to do as you want, but ONLY within the confines of the orders to that Sargent to what he can do. If the Colonel says no one outside the barracks after 1800, the NCOs can NOT overrule that order. If the Colonel says no one outside passed midnight, but the NCOs can imposed earlier times, your NCO can still say no one outside the barracks after 1800. If the Colonel says the NCOs can NOT impose an earlier time, then it is Midnight no matter what the NCOs want.

Thus I suspect some general policy as to people leaving the barracks OR the issuance of weapons of people who do is in question. Such decisions are made by Commissioned Officers, generally field grade officers (Majors, Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels). Something is up and it deals with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl but I suspect it also deals with others, some of whom wear field grade insignia.

the interviews the "platoon mates" gave before they had the PR man Brad Chase represent them for FOX appearances, or GOP operative Richard Grennell pimping and prepping them, differ than what they say on RW media now. They don't mention the 2 missing Afghan policemen anymore.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/bowe-bergdahls-views-shifted-after-first-taste-of-war-1402101487

Our Afghan "Allies" are and were NOT to be trusted. They loyalty was to whatever sub clan of their tribe they belonged to (Notice NOT the Tribe, for the Afghan Tribes are NOT the Centralized tribes of Iraq and the Middle East, but more like the US Native American Tribes during and before the Westward Movement of America, i.e. more collections of groups that rallied around popular leaders, then the more hierarchy tribes of the Middle East)

As such they loyalty is to whoever is their leader (which can change over night, through the Afghan tend to be more centralized then Native American Tribes, but not up to the level of the Middle Eastern Tribes). Thus the two missing Afghan Police is significant. Who had them join the US side to provide intelligence. Someone in the Taliban Side decided a US POW was valuable and decided to obtain one when he heard of Bergdahl's habit of going alone and unarmed to see the Afghan police officers. Someone in the Taliban hierarchy decided a US POW was worth giving up two spies who were in the Afghan Police. The actual police officers may have took them to the Taliban, or the Police may have just told the Taliban snouy Bergdahl's habits and left the Taliban take care of the details of capturing him.

I have read elsewhere they was an extensive search for Bergdahl after his capture, but he was long gone (Again implies a plan not something spur of the moment are part of the Afghan Police and/or the Taliban).

Thus who left him go alone to the Afghan Police officers location? Who left him go unarmed? What was the official policy as to leaving the unit area? Most units in combat says you can NOT leave the unit area (They want to be able to find everyone in the unit quickly if something comes up). I hate to say this, something smells about his capture, and I do not suspect Bergdahl's is at fault. If Bergdahl's position is that he not only went to the Afghan Police Position, but his unit knew about it for he told everyone where he was going, then why was he NOT told to take a weapon with him? Since he did this before, why was he NOT told NOT to do it after he did it the first or second time?

Something is not right here, and I do not suspect Bergdahl.

armchair jury duty?

When you do that you fall right into the arms of Fox News and corporate media propaganda.

Refuse to serve.

Congratulations to the last POW in captivity, Fox and the corporations are not the people of America, they are just the loudest voices in the room.

The HQ (likely make-work) job is one clue. If he were totally cleared, he'd be given a duty station and orders--or the option to pack his bags and go home.

His enlistment has to be up at this point in time, and I'm sure if he re-upped that would be noted. However, they can't let him out until he jumps through all those hoops so he's working on involuntary extensions at this point in time.

What's funny is how all the conservatives are ripping this guy and his family like they're a bunch of hippy dippy peace-nikky flower children, when in actual fact, they're fundy Bible thumping, gun loving "survivalist hippie" conservatives...! They raised this kid to be a teabagger--and I guess it didn't suit him...?

Before his release: "WHY ISN'T OBAMA DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES TO RELEASE OUR SOLDIER?"

After his release: "WHY DID OBAMA MAKE A DEAL TO GET THIS TRAITOR SCUM RELEASED?"

This really, truly is a case of hating someone so much, that they'll take any position as long as it's in opposition to them.