Bergdahl Was In Unit Known For Its Troubles -- New York Times
The platoon was, an American military official would assert years later, “raggedy.”
On their tiny, remote base, in a restive sector of eastern Afghanistan at an increasingly violent time of the war, they were known to wear bandannas and cutoff T-shirts. Their crude observation post was inadequately secured, a military review later found. Their first platoon leader, and then their first platoon sergeant, were replaced relatively early in the deployment because of problems.
But the unit — Second Platoon, Blackfoot Company in the First Battalion, 501st Regiment — might well have remained indistinguishable from scores of other Army platoons in Afghanistan had it not been for one salient fact: This was the team from which Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl disappeared on June 30, 2009.
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Update: Wearing forbidden bandanas, the 'raggedy misfits' who served with Bowe Bergdahl: Now secret files claim POW's unit had discipline problems even before he deserted -- Daily Mail
My Comment: It is not hard to figure out who is leaking all of this "classified info" to the New York Times.
2 comments:
This makes me angry.
I do not know why .... but for some reason I have this feeling that some of these soldiers are going to be audited by the IRS in the next few months.
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