We all know that Trump called Bergdahl a "traitor" and suggested execution.
Bergdahl was born in March 1986.
Bergdahl, a volunteer who certainly screwed up and he made bad decisions which snowballed however he has admitted fault. It seems the Coast Guard spotted something the Army missed.
Trump went to a military school, rose through the ranks and used an obviously spurious excuse of *'bone spurs'.
Trump who would likely have jumped straight to officer took the coward's route. We will never know if he had the right stuff or not under fire. Bergdahl was an idiot and will be punished for that but he volunteered to serve.
Why does Trump get any respect in America?
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/16/16482270/bowe-bergdahl-guilty-plea-desertion-serial
"The desertion case was tricky to make. According to Bergdahl’s own account, confirmed by an internal military investigation led by Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, Bergdahl’s goal wasn’t to disappear into the Afghan wilderness or (as Trump alleged) turn traitor and defect to the Taliban.
Instead, he had a plan to blow the whistle on (apparently largely imagined) "officer incompetence" and mismanagement in his unit. He aimed to run across 20 miles of hostile territory to get to a forward operating base (FOB) called Sharana and inform the general there about what was going on."
* https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
"But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. Mr. Trump had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery began in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number.
Because of his medical exemption, his lottery number would have been irrelevant, said Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, who has worked for the agency for three decades.
“He was already classified and determined not to be subject to the draft under the conditions in place at the time,” Mr. Flahavan said."
Bergdahl was born in March 1986.
- In 2006, Bergdahl entered basic training in the United States Coast Guard but was discharged after 26 days for psychological reasons and received an "uncharacterized discharge".[2]
- In 2008, Bergdahl enlisted in the United States Army and graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.[1] He was then assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Richardson, Alaska.[20]
Bergdahl, a volunteer who certainly screwed up and he made bad decisions which snowballed however he has admitted fault. It seems the Coast Guard spotted something the Army missed.
Trump went to a military school, rose through the ranks and used an obviously spurious excuse of *'bone spurs'.
Trump who would likely have jumped straight to officer took the coward's route. We will never know if he had the right stuff or not under fire. Bergdahl was an idiot and will be punished for that but he volunteered to serve.
Why does Trump get any respect in America?
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/16/16482270/bowe-bergdahl-guilty-plea-desertion-serial
"The desertion case was tricky to make. According to Bergdahl’s own account, confirmed by an internal military investigation led by Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, Bergdahl’s goal wasn’t to disappear into the Afghan wilderness or (as Trump alleged) turn traitor and defect to the Taliban.
Instead, he had a plan to blow the whistle on (apparently largely imagined) "officer incompetence" and mismanagement in his unit. He aimed to run across 20 miles of hostile territory to get to a forward operating base (FOB) called Sharana and inform the general there about what was going on."
* https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
"But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. Mr. Trump had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery began in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number.
Because of his medical exemption, his lottery number would have been irrelevant, said Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, who has worked for the agency for three decades.
“He was already classified and determined not to be subject to the draft under the conditions in place at the time,” Mr. Flahavan said."
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Let us remember than dodging the draft during the war in Viet Nam was quite popular, especially as the war ran on.