People need to STOP making assumptions about this whole mess…get the story when he returns home, he is neither hero nor scoundrel…he is a us soldier until proven otherwise!

If the military “kept tabs” on Bergdahl, why was he in taliban hands for five years minus two months??? If they were “keeping tab” on Bergdahl, WHY didn’t the Officials in the Military go after him in 2010, when he escaped tyhe Taliban for THREE days??

By KEN DILANIAN and DEB RIECHMANN

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military curbed any high-risk rescue plans. But the U.S. kept pursuing avenues to negotiate his release, recently seeking to fracture the Taliban network by making its leaders fear a faster deal with underlings could prevent the freedom they sought for five of their top officials, American officials told The Associated Press.
The U.S. government kept tabs on Bergdahl’s whereabouts with spies, drones and satellites, even as it pursued off-and-on negotiations to get him back over the five years of captivity that ended on Saturday.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/01/4150977/us-soldier-released-after-5-years.html#storylink=cpy

OPINION Piece on Bergdahl: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/we-lost-soldiers-in-the-hunt-for-bergdahl-a-guy-who-walked-off-in-the-dead-of-night.html

I served in the same battalion in Afghanistan and participated in the attempts to retrieve him throughout the summer of 2009. After we redeployed, every member of my brigade combat team received an order [not forced to sign a nondisclosure form!] that we were not allowed to discuss what happened to Bergdahl for fear of endangering him.

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On the night prior to his capture, Bergdahl pulled guard duty at OP Mest, a small outpost about two hours south of the provincial capitol. The base resembled a wagon circle of armored vehicles with some razor wire strung around them. A guard tower sat high up on a nearby hill, but the outpost itself was no fortress. Besides the tower, the only hard structure that I saw in July 2009 was a plywood shed filled with bottled water. Soldiers either slept in poncho tents or inside their vehicles.

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The next morning, Bergdahl failed to show for the morning roll call. The soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Blackfoot Company discovered his rifle, helmet, body armor and web gear in a neat stack. He had, however, taken his compass. [Did he take his compass or did someone else? Did he go with Afghan army member as it was told when he went missing??] His fellow soldiers later mentioned his stated desire to walk from Afghanistan to India. [is this why they said he was delusional? A few days before this, he watched his commanding officer get killed.]

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“Bergdahl was relieved from guard duty, and instead of going to sleep, he fled the outpost on foot.” [See next comment too, you say he was relieved of duty and in the previous paragraph you write: “On the night prior to his capture, Bergdahl pulled guard duty at OP Mest”…so which was it?? he “walked off while on duty” or he was relieved and walked off, and where is your proof of any of this…]

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I’ve talked to members of Bergdahl’s platoon—including the last Americans to see him before his capture. I’ve reviewed the relevant documents. [I thought you said you were THERE at the time Bergdahl was? With so few people at this outpost, you’d have known him by sight…]