Enigma of US Soldier Bowe Bergdahl

That soldier Bowe Bergdahl personality is multifaceted proves that one person that has spoken and has been quoted in newspaper reports on the release of the military have been his ballet teacher. Sherry Horton left the tutu and now runs a wine bar in the rural population of Haley, Idaho – think that maybe, just maybe, one of the things that attracted Bergdahl to the Army was discipline, something I know a little ballet dancers.

After the first week of his release, the result of the exchange of five prisoners at Guantanamo by the soldier, every day there is a little more information about the Bergdahl enigma. The soldier, now promoted as sergeant was not aware of that, and that came during his captivity, is recovering in a military hospital of the U.S. base in Landstuhl (Germany), where in addition to be undergoing a thorough medical review process his mental health is also being carefully examined, having spent almost five years in the hands of the Taliban in a remote mountainous region in Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

“His fitness would put him on a plane back to the U.S. tomorrow,” a doctor who has treated Bergdahl, quoted by The New York Times. “However, the reunion with his family, or having to face the media and their emotional stability make it impossible for now.” Those who consider that Bergdahl deserted and joined the Taliban – what is possible according to the investigation,  should think twice before accusing. The young soldier, 28, has told their doctors these days that the Taliban kept him locked in a metal cage for weeks, perhaps months, in retaliation for his two escape attempts.

So far, Bergdahl has declined to speak with his family by phone. Neither has responded to a letter his sister Sky wrote. According to his doctors, all this reflects a normal process of return to life after captivity, first in the hands of the Taliban, then held by the Haqqani network, an ally of Al Qaeda. Bergdahl does not respond when nurses refer to him as a sergeant and asked to keep calling him a soldier. For the first time, in the middle of last week, dressed in the uniform of the U.S. Army, who had not looked for almost five years.

Bergdahl is, for the moment, oblivious to the controversy that his release has caused. Military authorities not put date on his return to America. His medical checkups say he weighs just over 72 kilos, which for height 1.75 meters seems proportionate. Your daily report contains the soldier sleeps an average of seven hours a night. What Bergdahl does not know is that his family has received threats, which the FBI is analyzing because of those who consider him a traitor and even a murderer, as six men died during his search and rescue operation.

That Bergdalh look good, regardless of having skin discoloration and lived under a terrible hygiene does not seem to support the argument used by the administration of President Barack Obama that he could not report to Congress 30 days perceptive to free prisoners Guantanamo, which were exchanged due to rapid deterioration of health of the prisoner, and the White House review of the video proved that the Taliban sent last December.

Educated at home by his parents, Bob and Jani, who came to Idaho from California in search of peace and tranquility about three decades ago, the young soldier was always a free spirit who liked to dive into the books, but also explore the nature. Staunch supporter of programs for Bear Grylls, where British survival expert puts his life on the line in every episode of Man vs. Wild, Bergdahl scored infantryman in autumn 2008 after 16 weeks of training. Unlike his colleagues, used his weekend passes during training to visit local bookstores instead of going to strip clubs.

When leaving for Afghanistan in March 2009, assigned to a patrol that, like many others stationed in remote mountainous areas were considered by his superiors as ” ragged ” – the soldiers as Bergdahl reneged uniform, I wore tank tops and headscarves and showed undisciplined. Bergdahl, who disappeared on June 30, 2009, nicknamed SF (Special Forces) won, but in an ironic sense. Bergdahl smoked a pipe, cigarettes ever. He did not drink alcohol. One day after returning from a difficult simulated combat operation the soldier said loudly that needed a “Coca Cola “. His request did not help banish the mocking nickname.

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