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re: TIME: Bergdahls UNFAIR hometown cancels welcome home parade:
Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:12 pm to monsterballads
Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:12 pm to monsterballads
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he was trained in US Army mountain warfare.
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.
This post was edited on 6/4/14 at 4:14 pm
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:22 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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I wouldn't make him out to be some sort of highly-trained machine
oh, i'm not. he did do the training and i'm sure he told them whatever they wanted to know.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 6:14 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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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.
I have no doubt that he gave them what he knew. I'm guessing the most he knew were Company SOPs, lay out of the COP, and his limited knowledge on battle drills and weapons. The TB gain much more information about that just looking up the Ranger Handbook online. I highly doubt he knows too much about explosives and anything advanced, and hell I bet he couldn't even teach them how to plot a point.
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