Documents portray Bowe Bergdahl, accused of desertion, as idealistic loner

Exactly which Ideals might he be purported to have? He isn't a loner, he is a loser, see how important that one letter is in that word?

We washes out of the Coast Guard, tries to join the French Foreign Legion because he wants to learn languages and travel. Joins the Army, then deserts. He sounds like a classic American idiot that doesn't know how the world works and is ill prepared to succeed in it. Failure will be his epitaph.

I don't think he should be given a single inch of sympathy or leniency. Find the book, pick it up and throw it at him. The Army needs to cut these sort of shenanigans off or they will get much more of them.

There must have been dozens of "adjustment-disorder-like" soldiers who would be considered fraudulent enlistees. How can we stop MEPS docs from handing waivers out to every guy off the street (because, in some instances, they are the ones who get others hurt or killed)? It's sad that as a junior enlisted I have to pick and choose those battle buddies I can trust in and out of a combat environment. What's worse, that is a very short list.

I still say he is a trader. Let him rot in jail as far as I'm concerned. What he did and the men that lost there lives behind him was so wrong. A firing squad is to good for him and it would be a waste of bullets. Strip him down to his bare skin and let bubba have him in prison, or do some old Indian torture tricks and then send him back over there with his new friends v