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"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
May he enjoy a hot shower and a cold beer. Praying a safe return and reintegration.
5 to 1 good trade
Thank God he's coming home! Hope he doesn't have to rely on VA for any issues.
WELCOME HOME SOLDIER.
5 Scumbags for one of our own is indeed a good trade.
WE WON. WE BEAT THE MACHINE. WE HAVE CCW NOW.
Five pieces of cr,,,,,,, well you know, for a hero IMO is indeed a good trade!!!! WELCOME HOME!!!!!!!
Anyone who has, in the service of his country, endured what he has for the last five years IS a hero no mistake about it!
I really have mixed emotions on this one. Couldn't be gladder to have him back with us and his family. But the five for which he was exchanged seem to have a rep as real baaaaaadd actors. OOps I almost slipped again. Collectively responsible for the death of hundreds of Shiites-Afganistan must be ecstatic to have them back in the region.
Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
"I don't have hobbies - I'm developing a robust post-apocalyptic skill set"
I may be discharged and retired but I'm sure I did not renounce the oath that I solemnly swore!
Wouldn't itbe great if they implanted some kind of tracking devices in those terrorists before we gave them back? Or maybe infected them with small pox or anthrax or something? I doubt the Obama administration could have thought of something like that, though.
I sincerely hope he IS a heroOriginally Posted by oldred
BUT Maybe- Maybe not
On June 30, 2009, Bergdahl was reported missing after not showing up for morning roll call. The murky circumstances of his disappearance led some to label him a deserter.
Bergdahl disappeared when he reportedly walked away from a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009, carrying only a compass and a bottle of water. He was the only U.S. service member ever to be held captive by enemy forces in Afghanistan.
LOYALTY ABOVE ALL ELSE, EXCEPT HONOR
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
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I'm glad for him and his family that he's on his way back home.
His absence from his post is a mystery, and I may be leery of whatever official explanation is finally offered. Was he taken prisoner? Did he desert? We may never know.
I'd be extremely surprised if the five terrorists remain in Qatar after the mandatory one-year mandated time period. Most likely they'll split for wherever they came from and will be hailed as Allah's true heroes.
Welcome back, Soldier.
Making poor decisions, getting captured, and being the cause of 5 confirmed enemy being released does not make you a hero. It makes you a person who made a poor decision, got captured, and who is the reason 5 confirmed enemy will be back in Afghanistan to do what they do so well.
Not to mention the lives risked in the initial search effort, and now the lives at risk with 5 more enemy on the loose.
The man may have endured a long captivity, but he is no hero. Not in any sense of the word. Heros drag people out of blown up buildings under gunfire, clean out MG nests, and jump on grenades.
My flame suit is on, so go ahead.
Is there any recent precedent for such a "trade"? Seems more like negotiating with terrorists. Don't know if he has family, but if I did not I would have gone out swinging/shooting. I agree that there is probably no good reason for being captured in the first place.
Sure does take your mind off the VA and Benghazi....
This is one that has always made me wonder. I'm glad he is back but I'm really skeptical about the official version of how he got captured. I'm not sure about the Army but generally when you heard about somebody doing something like that in the Marines when I was in, it was because they are a "doo doo" bird, and their platoon "looses them accidentally" while out on patrol. "Don't know what happened sir, he just disappeared during the night". When what really happens is the whole platoon picks up and moves during the night when they are sleeping leaving them only water and a compass, because loosing a weapon gets looked into but somebody going native, not so much. I know one guy personally who made it back to base after being left like that on a recon patrol. It took him nearly 30 days and sadly he is messed up for life from the experience(not my platoon but I know him personally pretty well). Official write up was that he "became separated from his platoon during the night". So while I welcome this guy back whole heartedly, I am taking the official explanation with a Dead Sea size grain of salt.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true
My thoughts exactly. Or a time delayed device, like the suicide belt that went off at the before use party. I want thinking of it being stuck somewhere..........
Lewis AKA Wright Brothers Gunsmiths
"Illegitimus non carborundum"
Political Correctness: A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t*rd by the clean end!
Yep, it sure did, they got me again, but then I've never forgotten how I was treated coming home in 1969 either.
Lewis AKA Wright Brothers Gunsmiths
"Illegitimus non carborundum"
Political Correctness: A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t*rd by the clean end!
Why is it that obummer is taking all the credit for this tooo????
We all know he dosen't have the brains to do anything like this.
He took credit for getting osama and had nothing to do with it.
If this guy just made a stupid mistake causing his capture, then I'm glad he's back. But he's not a hero.
He has to be watched closely for a few years.
5 for one may seem like a good trade, unless the 5 take out more Americans.
Micro chip in those 5 sc**bags sounded like a great idea. Give's the drone something to target.
How much brains do you figure a guy needs to trade five prisoners for one. I'm thinking a preschool kid with a handfull of marbles could have done better. I am glad the guy is coming home if he was actually a prisoner, but I hate the precedent this sets.
Every US serviceman now has a "5 for 1" price tag on their heads. Expect a few to go missing soon.
It does set a dangerous precedent and I remember this guy got captured under some weird circumstances. He was a kind of a strange guy before enlisting I remember seeing reported, and it seems like he didn't desert as much as he just kinda got bored and walked away or something. So maybe he wasn't treasonous, just goofy and naive, but either way, I hope the Army does some serious interrogation of him and investigate what happened and also to get as much information from him about his captors.
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