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.
This makes me angry.
ReplyDeleteI 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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