Posted on 06/08/2014 2:14:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Since the Army doesn’t have any jets that I’m aware of, due to Key West, that’s correct. IIRC, making E-5 in 3-4 years is nearly impossible unless you’re a model airman.
This guy is going to need months of coaching by the Obama crew before he can be trusted to talk the party line to the media.
I managed. Twice, depending on how you count the gap in service...
It's a different world today.
I let my last enlistment expire in 2008 after I found out the USAF actually does insist on PT these days. To Army standards.
Didn't fit my coffee cup and swivel chair lifestyle.
/johnny
Let us not forget that Bergdahl FIRST tried to join the French Foreign Legion. He joined the US Army after the Legion turned him down. This isn’t some patriot.
does anyone understand how he was promoted while missing? This sounds just as bad as civilian bureaucracy in US government
I am inclined to believe he is unstable. Who, but a total loony would walk away in Afghanistan searching for the Taliban? The Taliban that beheads people and posts it on the internet. I’m sure that there is some clinical term for people that live in fantasy land.
That being said...he is still responsible for his actions, no matter what the cause. And should have to pay for his actions. It’s sort of like I view the mass murderers and people who murder their children. I’m really, really sorry you are a mental case...but too bad.
Like others on this thread have said...I really think he is being reinvented by the press and reprogrammed by the military to cover The Won’s fanny.
See my post #25.
That same question was asked on one of the cable news channels (O'Reilly Factor?) the other night. It was explained that it was an automatic promotion based on time in service that is given to everyone.
The fastest you could possibly make E5 in the active USAF was 4’years. That isn’t even possible today. You didn’t mention WAPS testing, so I’m not sure I believe your clams without clarification.
Guess he was too stupid to realize that there are other foreign legions.
Spanish Legion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Legion
Russia’s new Foreign Legion
http://themoscownews.com/news/20101125/188233351.html
Foreign Militaries That Accept US Citizens
http://militarycareers.about.com/od/Why-Join-The-Armed-Forces/tp/Foreign-Militaries-That-Accept-Us-Citizens.htm
Thank you. I did not know this was the process. This story just gets more and more strange.
Ask anyone in the Naval service what a four-striper is.
Why would Bergdahl want to join the French Foreign Legion?
A. For their education benefits in the US.
B. They have a great ballet program.
C. He likes to eat snails.
D. To protect and defend the Constitution of The United States.
E. He’s a dumbass.
I wonder who his Publicist is?
I had a mix of active and reserve. Lots of folks here on FR were around when I re-enlisted after 9/11.
I was a cook (services specialist) the second enlistment.
/johnny
Below the Board.Below the Zone.
Were you drunk the entire time you were in?
“You’ll get nothing and like it!”
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