re: TIME: Bergdahls UNFAIR hometown cancels welcome home parade:

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he was trained in US Army mountain warfare.

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I wouldn't make him out to be some sort of highly-trained machine - he was a buck arse private with just over two months in country and wasn't even airborne qualified yet.

IF he cooperated with the TB, my guess would be on very unit- and locale-specific things like lay-out of the base, personality and tendencies of the command, etc. There is nothing tactically a PFC with less than a year's time in could tell the Taliban in 2009/2010 that they haven't already learned through an open source FM or by actually fighting us and observing our tactics for a decade.

And even then, if he was as ate up as he is portrayed to be, I'd guess a lot of his information was either incomplete or inaccurate.

Still doesn't excuse collaborating with the enemy, though...don't get me wrong there.