The 6 U.S. Soldiers Who Died Searching For Bowe Bergdahl

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Posted: 6/2/2014 4:38:55 PM EDT

http://time.com/2809352/bowe-bergdahl-deserter-army-taliban/

Chances are you haven’t heard of the six soldiers who died hunting for him after he went missing, according to military officials. Now that Bergdahl has been sprung—in exchange for five senior Taliban officials, who had been imprisoned at Guantanamo—soldiers who served with Bergdahl are grumbling that he deserted and shouldn’t be hailed as a hero, especially given the resulting cost in American lives.

The bile surrounding his rescue is blunt on his Fort Richardson, Alaska brigade’s Facebook page:

•“I say we welcome him home with a firing squad.,” one says. “He’s a piece of trash and everyone from [Fort Richardson] knows it the only person less American than that man is the president for giving up 5 hvt’s [High-Value Targets]”

•“Now he can stand trial for deserting his post,” says one message on his unit’s Facebook page—a sentiment that has garnered 44 “likes”.

•“Do you know how many families never saw their loved ones because of him?” a third poster asked.

Commenters who suggested such comments were unduly harsh were dismissed by and large. “Maybe if you knew the truth and the sacrifices made from people in our units in Alaska to find this douche you wouldn’t feel the way you do,” one responded to a poster urging restraint. “I feel worse for the kids who have to grow up fatherless cause their daddies died looking for this punk.”

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Posted: 6/2/2014 4:43:16 PM EDT

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RIP

Posted: 6/2/2014 4:47:53 PM EDT

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I wonder how many died capturing those that were released.

Posted: 6/2/2014 4:49:17 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/2/2014 4:51:33 PM EDT

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RIP

Posted: 6/2/2014 4:52:59 PM EDT

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I dont know much about this case, but on the surface it appears to be,,, fuck that douche

Posted: 6/2/2014 4:57:17 PM EDT

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Other units lost soldiers due to his desertion also. Oh, and the horrible wounds that some are living with now.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:00:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/2/2014 5:02:35 PM EDT

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They won't be able to keep the lid on it forever.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:02:57 PM EDT

[#9]

So F'd

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:05:02 PM EDT

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Saw an interview with a guy from his unit. Flat out called him a deserted and said he knew exactly what he was doing and walked off and abandoned his post and brothers. That says a lot.

Rip for the brothers who died trying to find this deserter.

6 Americans and 6 Taliban leaders for this guy?

FBHO

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:07:50 PM EDT

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However many there were, their lives were worth much, much more than Bergdahl's

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Posted: 6/2/2014 5:15:28 PM EDT

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The POS's family gets to be celebs for a while, get national attention, get to meet the president.

The families of the real heroes? Not so much. But we'll see.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:20:09 PM EDT

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He will be hailed a hero. Medals will be pinned on his chest. And then he will turn on us again.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:21:44 PM EDT

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the father is a taliban sympathizer.

one of Bowe's teammates said just before going missing he mailed his personal stuff home

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:24:07 PM EDT

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I truly believe his intention was to defect to the taliban.

That's the worst kind of enemy.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:25:28 PM EDT

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Homeland..

better bergdahl or whatever the fuck is name is is Coc'd? now so more dont die because he turned.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:28:51 PM EDT

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Saw an interview with a guy from his unit. Flat out called him a deserted and said he knew exactly what he was doing and walked off and abandoned his post and brothers. That says a lot.

Rip for the brothers who died trying to find this deserter.

6 Americans and 6 Taliban leaders for this guy?

FBHO

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Says a lot when no one will say anything halfway positive about you.

Shit, I know guys that are POS. But at least I can honestly say they will fucking fight, and aren't goddamned cowards.

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:28:59 PM EDT

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Snowden would make a nice roommate for him at Gitmo.

God Bless those who lost their lives.

This president can pull a marine out of mexico but we can release war criminals for a this guy? I don't know that we will ever get out country back

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:38:12 PM EDT

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I'm beginning to wonder if he was even really a prisoner
I'm reading in multiple places that he went awol
could he have told them "let me give you info and 'hold me prisoner' for a few years and then try trading me back for some of your comrades"

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:41:32 PM EDT

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God Bless those who lost their lives.

This president can pull a marine out of mexico but we can release war criminals for a this guy? I don't know that we will ever get out country back

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The Marine in Mexico is not a traitor and sympathiser of the enemy so Obama will ignore him

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:49:42 PM EDT

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Watched the piece on Fox about this. Showed his piece of shit father saying a little prayer in Arabic and our esteemed Commander in Chief smiling ear to ear next to him. This is a disgrace. I'm so angry and bitter and ashamed that I want to drink

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:52:37 PM EDT

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http://www.oafnation.com/guests-pieces/2014/6/2/oaf-exclusive-the-truth-about-bowe-bagdahl

Posted: 6/2/2014 5:56:22 PM EDT

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I feel so sorry for the real heroes who died looking for him

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:01:43 PM EDT

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And the Kenyan violates recent US law by not notifying Congress 30 days ahead of the swap?

Next election cycle just ask candidates if they would give up high value targets in exchange for deserters?

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:04:38 PM EDT

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It appears the 5 Taliban arrived in Qatar under no supervision or guard. Wonder how long it will take them to make their way back to Afghanistan and get back in the fight.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:08:27 PM EDT

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I can easily see a government exchanging 6 high value targets for a deserter and a traitor - it is extremely important that deserters and traitors be shown the fullness of the law with extreme prejudice.

Unfortunately, he was doing the will of the POS apparently...

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:08:55 PM EDT

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Other units lost soldiers due to his desertion also. Oh, and the horrible wounds that some are living with now.

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And the general consensus that the ambushes in the area became more organized...

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:16:45 PM EDT

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I am now ashamed of my country. Ashamed of a place where half the population supports this administration, this corrupt government, this treason in the highest office. Supports these people that they've sold their souls to in exchange for being able to collect a few dollars every month, at other's expense, while leading a useless life. Ashamed of a Congress full of cowards who won't do their duty, a media that is complicit instead of laying bare the truth. I can't believe what all I have witnessed in the last 6 years. I have no reason to believe we will ever get it back.

As I do on this weekend every year, I think I will go to the Reading WWII show and spend some time with some real heroes, at least the few who are left. I will listen to them tell of their experiences, chat with them, shake a few hands and experience a little of the time when this was a great country that did great things. We saved the world from evil people, who like the Taliban, Al Qaeda and radical Islam, wanted to exterminate those who disagreed with them. Now we kiss their ass and make deals with them. Allow them to influence policy. Apologize to them for being a great nation. I'm sure I will shed a tear or two.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:18:47 PM EDT

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Says a lot when no one will say anything halfway positive about you.

Shit, I know guys that are POS. But at least I can honestly say they will fucking fight, and aren't goddamned cowards.

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Saw an interview with a guy from his unit. Flat out called him a deserted and said he knew exactly what he was doing and walked off and abandoned his post and brothers. That says a lot.

Rip for the brothers who died trying to find this deserter.

6 Americans and 6 Taliban leaders for this guy?

FBHO

Says a lot when no one will say anything halfway positive about you.

Shit, I know guys that are POS. But at least I can honestly say they will fucking fight, and aren't goddamned cowards.

You're insulting cowards by equating them with B. Cowards simply run away from the fight. B ran to the enemy to join them in the fight against his own unit. The most sniveling cowards out there is not that low.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:22:40 PM EDT

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Other units lost soldiers due to his desertion also. Oh, and the horrible wounds that some are living with now.

And the general consensus that the ambushes in the area became more organized...

The desertion/defection emboldened the enemy. It also consumed resources like air support and QRF theater-wide.

We knew the Dbag was giving unit specific info on TTP's.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:26:48 PM EDT

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Wow. No shit.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:27:17 PM EDT

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Does anyone else think this is a real life Brody? I do. Fuck this clown! RIP to the the honorable men who died to protect him. Yet another joke in the Obama foreign policy. What a bunch of fucking pansies

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:27:57 PM EDT

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Saw an interview with a guy from his unit. Flat out called him a deserted and said he knew exactly what he was doing and walked off and abandoned his post and brothers. That says a lot.

Rip for the brothers who died trying to find this deserter.

6 Americans and 6 Taliban leaders for this guy?

FBHO

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The one that ABC interviewed?

He was pretty straight forward on what he though of Bergdahl.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:29:47 PM EDT

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The desertion/defection emboldened the enemy. It also consumed resources like air support and QRF theater-wide.

We knew the Dbag was giving unit specific info on TTP's.

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Other units lost soldiers due to his desertion also. Oh, and the horrible wounds that some are living with now.

And the general consensus that the ambushes in the area became more organized...

The desertion/defection emboldened the enemy. It also consumed resources like air support and QRF theater-wide.

We knew the Dbag was giving unit specific info on TTP's.

Of course.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:31:29 PM EDT

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i'm sure that those who choose to live by the sword do so because they embrace life and death and not because they need your sympathy when they fall.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:33:23 PM EDT

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It appears the 5 Taliban arrived in Qatar under no supervision or guard. Wonder how long it will take them to make their way back to Afghanistan and get back in the fight.

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More than likely, they're already on their way

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:34:07 PM EDT

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i'm sure that those who choose to live by the sword do so because they embrace life and death and not because they need your sympathy when they fall.

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?

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:36:17 PM EDT

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i'm sure that those who choose to live by the sword do so because they embrace life and death and not because they need your sympathy when they fall.

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Posted: 6/2/2014 6:36:47 PM EDT

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Dam

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Wow. No shit.

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I wonder how many died capturing those that were released.

Wow. No shit.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:39:40 PM EDT

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How many people have those five killed directly or indirectly??? Thousands I am sure.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:39:55 PM EDT

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Oh GTFO troll.

Posted: 6/2/2014 6:42:13 PM EDT

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Other units lost soldiers due to his desertion also. Oh, and the horrible wounds that some are living with now.

And the general consensus that the ambushes in the area became more organized...

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:01:27 PM EDT

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Bump..

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:01:55 PM EDT

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the MSM has already been referring to him as a deserter...

seems like a good opportunity to point out obama's limp-wristed shitbaggery and sway moderate voters further away from him/his party.

it's really too bad soldiers died trying to retrieve that fellow. their stories should be repeated.

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:04:48 PM EDT

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Everything about this story makes me sick to my stomach.

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:05:07 PM EDT

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And how many more will die now that they were released.

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:06:04 PM EDT

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Fu*k him and fu*k his piece of shit father.

When I saw Abdul Berghdal on the white house lawn preaching his filth I literally had to do a double take....

It's a damn shame to the guys who went out day after day, night after night looking for his sorry ass.

Even his captors are admitting he was free to walk around the place he was kept.

Try him for desertion and give a front row seat to all the family members of the Soldiers who died looking for him, when he didn't even want to be found....

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:06:21 PM EDT

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+1

Posted: 6/2/2014 7:06:27 PM EDT

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There are quite a few guys from that regiment that live in my apartment complex. One guy has the lifted brodozer from hell with Texas plates and "COME TAKE IT" painted on the tail gate.