Bowe and Bob Bergdahl

[The Tariff King]

Plot twist:

57 served in Nam, 57 is Bob Bergdahl.

 

[57Brave]

Was in service late 60'-early 70's. No overseas service.

Time will again prove Fox wrong - Drs offices and waiting rooms around the country will still have Fox on constantly.
Quite a business they've created in the past 20 years

 

[57Brave]

As if last week weren't enough, John McCain is now suggesting released Guantanamo detainees were "responsible for 9/11."

He added, "I believe that there are other prisoners, some of whom we have already released, that we could have released." What?
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Shakespeare once noted "we are known by the company we keep"
or, it might have been Ben Franklin

 

[Runnin]

So Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard for psychological problems before joining the army. Doesn't the army run a basic history check on new enlistees?

The official records don't describe the circumstances of Bergdahl's departure, but the Post spoke to two friends of his who say he claimed to have faked a psychological problem to escape his commitment. Both told the newspaper that they believed he had real psychological issues underneath whatever he might have affected as a ruse:

“I said, ‘What happened?’ ” this friend recalled. “He said he started to feign a psychological disorder, saying strange things to get out. I remember flat out calling him out on it — I said, ‘There is something else going on.’ He said, ‘I chose to do it.’

 

[Julio3000]

The Army lowered the enlistment bar considerably in the wake of manpower needs stemming from Iraq/Afghanistan commitments. More chickens coming home to roost, maybe.

 

[gilesfan]

So Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard for psychological problems before joining the army. Doesn't the army run a basic history check on new enlistees?

The official records don't describe the circumstances of Bergdahl's departure, but the Post spoke to two friends of his who say he claimed to have faked a psychological problem to escape his commitment. Both told the newspaper that they believed he had real psychological issues underneath whatever he might have affected as a ruse:

“I said, ‘What happened?’ ” this friend recalled. “He said he started to feign a psychological disorder, saying strange things to get out. I remember flat out calling him out on it — I said, ‘There is something else going on.’ He said, ‘I chose to do it.’

Remember we aren't supposed to point out how crazy this dude or his father are. They are just normal, upstanding citizens.

 

[50PoundHead]

So Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard for psychological problems before joining the army. Doesn't the army run a basic history check on new enlistees?

The official records don't describe the circumstances of Bergdahl's departure, but the Post spoke to two friends of his who say he claimed to have faked a psychological problem to escape his commitment. Both told the newspaper that they believed he had real psychological issues underneath whatever he might have affected as a ruse:

“I said, ‘What happened?’ ” this friend recalled. “He said he started to feign a psychological disorder, saying strange things to get out. I remember flat out calling him out on it — I said, ‘There is something else going on.’ He said, ‘I chose to do it.’

I haven't followed this kerfuffle that closely, but when I read this I was shocked. If the families of the soldiers who may have died in efforts to rescue Bergdahl have a gripe, it should go all the way to the top of the Army and focus on the recruiters who let this nut enlist in the first place. If he was discharged from the Coast Guard for any reason, he shouldn't have been able to enlist period. What were the effin' recruiters thinking? Are they on some type of enlistment contest? Whatever, this is inexcusable.

 

[yeezus]

Remember we aren't supposed to point out how crazy this dude or his father are. They are just normal, upstanding citizens.

Further proof you're a moron who doesn't understand what's actually being said. I'm not surprised.

 

[Runnin]

If he was discharged from the Coast Guard for any reason, he shouldn't have been able to enlist period. ... Whatever, this is inexcusable.

I agree. This is what reporters should be talking about. How many other nutcases have been given uniforms and automatic weapons? I'm betting a LOT.

 

[AerchAngel]

I agree. This is what reporters should be talking about. How many other nutcases have been given uniforms and automatic weapons? I'm betting a LOT.

you are correct.

They don't have the money or resources to check. THey can only do background checks for criminal behavior. Too many walls to breach for mental evaluations from hospitals and clinics.

 

[keithlaw]

you are correct.

They don't have the money or resources to check. THey can only do background checks for criminal behavior. Too many walls to breach for mental evaluations from hospitals and clinics.

lol at the idea the military doesn't have enough money to investigate recruits

 

[50PoundHead]

lol at the idea the military doesn't have enough money to investigate recruits

The people who do the background checks don't accept $500 toilet seats or $125 hammers as currency.

 

[57Brave]

I agree. This is what reporters should be talking about. How many other nutcases have been given uniforms and automatic weapons? I'm betting a LOT.

Actually a number of reporters were talking about this in the run up to the wars. That would have been the knee jerk reaction of invading Afghanistan and the daddy issued lust for oil profits invasion of Iraq.

See Frank Rich article from yesterday where he in fact names the names of those that went head long crazy. See Katrina vandenHuvel today for those that stood up 2002-03 to our too little too late shock about how our military is /was unprepared for these debacles

 

[keithlaw]

The people who do the background checks don't accept $500 toilet seats or $125 hammers as currency.

Apparently they did when I tried to join