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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 3867672" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>Don't forget that Obama deserter ******* Bowe Bergdahl. We lost 6 good men looking for him and we traded 5 Taliban leadership for this trash! </p><p></p><p>The bile surrounding his rescue is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SpartanBrigade" target="_blank">blunt</a> on his Fort Richardson, Alaska brigade’s Facebook page:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“I say we welcome him home with a firing squad.,” one says. “He’s a piece of trash and everyone from [Fort Richardson] knows it the only person less American than that man is the president for giving up 5 hvt’s [High-Value Targets]”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“Now he can stand trial for deserting his post,” says one message on his unit’s Facebook page—a sentiment that has garnered 44 “likes”.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“Do you know how many families never saw their loved ones because of him?” a third poster asked.</li> </ul><p>Commenters who suggested such comments were unduly harsh were dismissed by and large. “Maybe if you knew the truth and the sacrifices made from people in our units in Alaska to find this ****** you wouldn’t feel the way you do,” one responded to a poster urging restraint. “I feel worse for the kids who have to grow up fatherless cause their daddies died looking for this punk.”</p><p></p><p>Tellingly, President Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/31/statement-president-sergeant-bowe-bergdahl" target="_blank">lauded</a> the “courage” of Bergdahl’s parents throughout his imprisonment, but merely extended an unadorned “welcome home” to Bergdahl himself.</p><p></p><p>Conflicting <a href="https://time.com/2809141/bergdahl-veterans-deserter/" target="_blank">reports</a> have surrounded Bergdahl’s disappearance. But there is evidence that he was upset over U.S. policy in Afghanistan and deserted his post in a war zone in Paktika province, in the southeastern part of the country by the Pakistan border, while serving with the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.</p><p></p><p>On Sunday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel didn’t issue Bergdahl a blank check for his pre-capture actions. “Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family,” he said. “Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later.”</p><p></p><p>Soldiers who fought in Afghanistan are waiting. “Those allegations can—and should—be handled administratively or legally once he’s back,” says a former Army officer who served in Afghanistan. Because he’s now working at a senior level in the U.S. government, he wouldn’t allow his name to be used. “If he did, in fact, desert, then he unnecessarily risked the lives of many brave people.”</p><p></p><p>Pentagon officials have suggested that Bergdahl will likely not be charged with any violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, believing that five years in Taliban custody was punishment enough.</p><p></p><p>But those irate over Bergdahl fear that the nation has forgotten the men they say were lost in the hunt for him:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bowen_clayton_p_lg.jpg?quality=85&w=125" alt="Bowen (Army)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Bowen</p><p> </p><p>Army</p><p><strong>Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen</strong>, 29, of San Antonio, Texas, and <strong>Private 1st Class Morris Walker</strong>, 23, of Chapel Hill, N.C., were <a href="http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=12915" target="_blank">killed</a> by a roadside bomb in Paktika province on Aug. 18, 2009, while trying to find Bergdahl. Like Bergdahl, they were part of the 4th BCT from Fort Richardson, Alaska.</p><p></p><p>Bowen’s mother last heard from her son the night before he died. “Clay called me around midnight to tell me I</p><p></p><p>wouldn’t hear from him for a few days,” she <a href="http://www.army.mil/article/87835/Gold_Star_Mothers_remember_loved_ones/" target="_blank">said</a>. She never heard from him again, although she can still hear his voice in the two CDs he recorded with the 82nd Airborne All-American Chorus. “He was the only bass in the group,” she said, “so you could always hear him.”</p><p></p><p>“What I think of first when I think of Morris is his smile because he was always smiling,” his junior-high teacher,</p><p></p><p><img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/s-walker-0911112.jpg?quality=85&w=161" alt="Walker (Army)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Walker</p><p> </p><p>Army</p><p>Wanda Bordone, <a href="http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/army-pfc-morris-l-walker/4245889" target="_blank">told</a> the Associated Press after he died. “He had a great sense of humor, lots of friends.”</p><p></p><p><strong>Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss</strong>, 27, of Murray, Utah, <a href="http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12936" target="_blank">died</a> Aug. 26 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was shot while his unit was supporting Afghan security forces during an enemy attack. Like Bergdahl, Bowen and Walker, he was part of the 4th BCT.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kurt.jpg?quality=85&w=125" alt="Curtiss (Army)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Curtiss</p><p> </p><p>Army</p><p>“I’ll never forget you Kurt,” Adrian Ramirez a fellow soldier from Fort Richardson, <a href="http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/saltlaketribune/kurt-curtiss-condolences/132163304?cid=full" target="_blank">posted</a> on a memorial site. “You were my first team leader from the beginning and my squad leader to the end. I will miss you and all the memories I have shared with you.”</p><p></p><p><strong>2nd Lieutenant Darryn Andrews</strong>, 34, of Dallas, Texas, <a href="http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=12954" target="_blank">died</a> Sept. 4 in Paktika Province when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device and a rocket-propelled grenade. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker and Curtiss, Andrews was part of the 4th BCT.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/andrews.jpg?quality=85&w=132" alt="Andrews (Army)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Andrews</p><p> </p><p>Army</p><p>“We grew up with an enormous amount of pride for our nation,” Andrews’ mother, Sondra, <a href="http://amarillo.com/stories/090909/new_news3.shtml" target="_blank">told</a> the <em>Amarillo Globe-News</em>. That was understandable: his father. grandfather and uncle had served in uniform. “We passed it on to our children, never thinking we would pay the ultimate sacrifice.”</p><p></p><p><strong>Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey</strong>, 25, of Snyder, Texas, <a href="http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12957" target="_blank">died</a> Sept. 6 in Paktika province after being wounded by an IED. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss and Andrews, Murphrey was part of the 4th BCT.</p><p></p><p>“On his 17th birthday his family took him skydiving and after that,” his obituary <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/savannah/obituary.aspx?n=michael-chance-murphrey&pid=134882889" target="_blank">read</a>, “he decided he wanted to be an Army paratrooper.”</p><p></p><p><img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/murphrey-ssg-michael-c.jpg?quality=85&w=106" alt="Murphrey (Army)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Murphrey</p><p> </p><p>Army</p><p>On Sept. 4, 2009, <strong>Private 1st Class Matthew Martinek</strong>, 20, of DeKalb, Ill., was seriously wounded in Paktika province when Taliban forces attacked his vehicle with an improvided explosive device, a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire.</p><p></p><p>The U.S. military rushed him to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany—the same medical facility where Bergdahl is now being treated.</p><p></p><p>Bergdahl is expected to fly home to the U.S. soon for additional care and counseling.</p><p></p><p>Martinek never got that chance. He <a href="http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12973" target="_blank">died</a> a week after the attack—on Sept. 11.</p><p></p><p>Martinek “tried not to talk too much about what he was doing, but he said he liked helping people,” his brother, Travis Wright, <a href="http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/army-pfc-matthew-m-martinek/4279471" target="_blank">told</a> the AP.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/martinek_matthew_m_lg.jpg?quality=85&w=125" alt="Martinek (Army)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Martinek</p><p> </p><p>Army</p><p>Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss, Andrews and Murphrey, Martinek was part of the 4th BCT.</p><p></p><p> U.S. soldiers who were there at the time believe, the diversion of these men and their units to the hunt for Bergdahl thinned the ranks of U.S. troops elsewhere in the region, contributing to several more American KIAs,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 3867672, member: 44288"] Don't forget that Obama deserter ******* Bowe Bergdahl. We lost 6 good men looking for him and we traded 5 Taliban leadership for this trash! The bile surrounding his rescue is [URL='https://www.facebook.com/SpartanBrigade']blunt[/URL] on his Fort Richardson, Alaska brigade’s Facebook page: [LIST] [*]“I say we welcome him home with a firing squad.,” one says. “He’s a piece of trash and everyone from [Fort Richardson] knows it the only person less American than that man is the president for giving up 5 hvt’s [High-Value Targets]” [*]“Now he can stand trial for deserting his post,” says one message on his unit’s Facebook page—a sentiment that has garnered 44 “likes”. [*]“Do you know how many families never saw their loved ones because of him?” a third poster asked. [/LIST] Commenters who suggested such comments were unduly harsh were dismissed by and large. “Maybe if you knew the truth and the sacrifices made from people in our units in Alaska to find this ****** you wouldn’t feel the way you do,” one responded to a poster urging restraint. “I feel worse for the kids who have to grow up fatherless cause their daddies died looking for this punk.” Tellingly, President Obama [URL='http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/31/statement-president-sergeant-bowe-bergdahl']lauded[/URL] the “courage” of Bergdahl’s parents throughout his imprisonment, but merely extended an unadorned “welcome home” to Bergdahl himself. Conflicting [URL='https://time.com/2809141/bergdahl-veterans-deserter/']reports[/URL] have surrounded Bergdahl’s disappearance. But there is evidence that he was upset over U.S. policy in Afghanistan and deserted his post in a war zone in Paktika province, in the southeastern part of the country by the Pakistan border, while serving with the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. On Sunday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel didn’t issue Bergdahl a blank check for his pre-capture actions. “Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family,” he said. “Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later.” Soldiers who fought in Afghanistan are waiting. “Those allegations can—and should—be handled administratively or legally once he’s back,” says a former Army officer who served in Afghanistan. Because he’s now working at a senior level in the U.S. government, he wouldn’t allow his name to be used. “If he did, in fact, desert, then he unnecessarily risked the lives of many brave people.” Pentagon officials have suggested that Bergdahl will likely not be charged with any violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, believing that five years in Taliban custody was punishment enough. But those irate over Bergdahl fear that the nation has forgotten the men they say were lost in the hunt for him: [IMG alt="Bowen (Army)"]https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bowen_clayton_p_lg.jpg?quality=85&w=125[/IMG] Bowen Army [B]Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen[/B], 29, of San Antonio, Texas, and [B]Private 1st Class Morris Walker[/B], 23, of Chapel Hill, N.C., were [URL='http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=12915']killed[/URL] by a roadside bomb in Paktika province on Aug. 18, 2009, while trying to find Bergdahl. Like Bergdahl, they were part of the 4th BCT from Fort Richardson, Alaska. Bowen’s mother last heard from her son the night before he died. “Clay called me around midnight to tell me I wouldn’t hear from him for a few days,” she [URL='http://www.army.mil/article/87835/Gold_Star_Mothers_remember_loved_ones/']said[/URL]. She never heard from him again, although she can still hear his voice in the two CDs he recorded with the 82nd Airborne All-American Chorus. “He was the only bass in the group,” she said, “so you could always hear him.” “What I think of first when I think of Morris is his smile because he was always smiling,” his junior-high teacher, [IMG alt="Walker (Army)"]https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/s-walker-0911112.jpg?quality=85&w=161[/IMG] Walker Army Wanda Bordone, [URL='http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/army-pfc-morris-l-walker/4245889']told[/URL] the Associated Press after he died. “He had a great sense of humor, lots of friends.” [B]Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss[/B], 27, of Murray, Utah, [URL='http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12936']died[/URL] Aug. 26 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was shot while his unit was supporting Afghan security forces during an enemy attack. Like Bergdahl, Bowen and Walker, he was part of the 4th BCT. [IMG alt="Curtiss (Army)"]https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kurt.jpg?quality=85&w=125[/IMG] Curtiss Army “I’ll never forget you Kurt,” Adrian Ramirez a fellow soldier from Fort Richardson, [URL='http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/saltlaketribune/kurt-curtiss-condolences/132163304?cid=full']posted[/URL] on a memorial site. “You were my first team leader from the beginning and my squad leader to the end. I will miss you and all the memories I have shared with you.” [B]2nd Lieutenant Darryn Andrews[/B], 34, of Dallas, Texas, [URL='http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=12954']died[/URL] Sept. 4 in Paktika Province when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device and a rocket-propelled grenade. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker and Curtiss, Andrews was part of the 4th BCT. [IMG alt="Andrews (Army)"]https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/andrews.jpg?quality=85&w=132[/IMG] Andrews Army “We grew up with an enormous amount of pride for our nation,” Andrews’ mother, Sondra, [URL='http://amarillo.com/stories/090909/new_news3.shtml']told[/URL] the [I]Amarillo Globe-News[/I]. That was understandable: his father. grandfather and uncle had served in uniform. “We passed it on to our children, never thinking we would pay the ultimate sacrifice.” [B]Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey[/B], 25, of Snyder, Texas, [URL='http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12957']died[/URL] Sept. 6 in Paktika province after being wounded by an IED. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss and Andrews, Murphrey was part of the 4th BCT. “On his 17th birthday his family took him skydiving and after that,” his obituary [URL='http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/savannah/obituary.aspx?n=michael-chance-murphrey&pid=134882889']read[/URL], “he decided he wanted to be an Army paratrooper.” [IMG alt="Murphrey (Army)"]https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/murphrey-ssg-michael-c.jpg?quality=85&w=106[/IMG] Murphrey Army On Sept. 4, 2009, [B]Private 1st Class Matthew Martinek[/B], 20, of DeKalb, Ill., was seriously wounded in Paktika province when Taliban forces attacked his vehicle with an improvided explosive device, a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire. The U.S. military rushed him to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany—the same medical facility where Bergdahl is now being treated. Bergdahl is expected to fly home to the U.S. soon for additional care and counseling. Martinek never got that chance. He [URL='http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12973']died[/URL] a week after the attack—on Sept. 11. Martinek “tried not to talk too much about what he was doing, but he said he liked helping people,” his brother, Travis Wright, [URL='http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/army-pfc-matthew-m-martinek/4279471']told[/URL] the AP. [IMG alt="Martinek (Army)"]https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/martinek_matthew_m_lg.jpg?quality=85&w=125[/IMG] Martinek Army Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss, Andrews and Murphrey, Martinek was part of the 4th BCT. U.S. soldiers who were there at the time believe, the diversion of these men and their units to the hunt for Bergdahl thinned the ranks of U.S. troops elsewhere in the region, contributing to several more American KIAs, [/QUOTE]
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