Report: Bergdahl Had Troubling Mental Health History

[Oldgamer]

It sounds like he had no business being in the military with these mental health issues. He was discharged from the coast guard for these same issues. I thought the military is suppose to screen people for serious mental health issues?

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Excerpt: Before he became a Taliban prisoner, before he wrote in his journal “I am the lone wolf of deadly nothingness,” before he joined the Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard for psychological reasons, said close friends who were worried about his emotional health at the time.

The 2006 discharge and a trove of Bergdahl’s writing — his handwritten journal along with essays, stories and e-mails provided to The Washington Post — paint a portrait of a deeply complicated and fragile young man who was by his own account struggling to maintain his mental stability from the start of basic training until the moment he walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan in 2009.

 

[MongGrel]

Nothing new here either.

You remember that Vietnam thing where they actually drafted people that didn't want to be in it ?

Obviously not.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Not wanting to be there, and not being fit to be there, are two entirely different things.

 

[cabri]

Related
http://news.yahoo.com/bergdahl-disc...chological-reasons-joined-army-175000500.html

Bergdahl wrote of dark entries about Army life and his mental wellbeing. Three days before walking off his post, he wrote in a letter, "this life is too short to serve those who compromise value, and its ethics. i am done compromising." The combination of psychological warning signs and evidence supporting allegations that Bergdahl deserted the Army means things just got even more complicated.

Bergdahl told his friends that he "faked" his psychological discharge to get out of the Coast Guard

It's possibly the Army would have overlooked Bergdahl's warning signs. Harrison said she provided the letters and journals, which have also been seen by government officials, to the Post because she was concerned Bergdahl made a conscious decision to go AWOL. Specifically, in several correspondences with Harrison and her daughter, he alluded to plans. In one, he wrote that his "actions may become . . . odd. No red flags. Im good. But plans have begun to form, no time line yet." In June 2009, weeks before he left the base, he wrote that he was “looking at a map of afghan," and wanted to wire his money to her in case things went bad

He was planning to bug out :thumbsdown:

 

[Oldgamer]

Wow, you all listen to "hearsay" from soldiers who did not like Bergdahl. None of that hearsay is fact, and only until the investigation and the doctors examine him will a determination be made.

 

[Moonbeam]

Wow, you all listen to "hearsay" from soldiers who did not like Bergdahl. None of that hearsay is fact, and only until the investigation and the doctors examine him will a determination be made.

Conservative brains do not operate on facts. The intellect is used to deflect them by providing invented reasoning, not to suspend judgement while facts become available.

 

[Oldgamer]

Conservative brains do not operate on facts. The intellect is used to deflect them by providing invented reasoning, not to suspend judgement while facts become available.

Except when you have someone like a "Zimmerman", then you see them saying, hold judgement till facts come out...lol

 

[Thebobo]

Wrong thread - edit ~