Posted on 06/20/2014 7:35:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Like the six other former captives who have been through the Army’s reintegration program at Brooke Army Medical Center before him, daily life for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is focused on routine.
He rises, eats and sleeps on a “normal schedule” and lives in a “typical” room at the huge hospital facility on a floor he shares with other patients.
What isn’t typical is the security presence outside his door. The reason, says Col. Hans Bush, command spokesman for U.S. Army South, is not to keep the returnee in, but “to make sure he doesn’t get overwhelmed in a social setting.” In other words, the goal is to prevent someone unwanted by either Bergdahl or his reintegration team from entering.
The medical center has a staff of hundreds, but America’s newest and perhaps most controversial returnee interacts daily with a very small, intimate circle numbering less than a dozen.
One of the most important parts of his routine is storytelling. The returnee personally recounts all that happened from the moment he left the security of his post in Afghanistan, though the five years he survived in captivity, right up until the day he was freed last month. And for the first time, the person telling that story is Bergdahl himself.
The listeners are a small group of professionals including a SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) psychologist, members of his medical team and Army debriefers....
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Any word on if he’s allowed his lovely parents to ‘see’ him yet? FUBB
He has not, so far as I’ve heard. Which is mighty fishy, IMO.
That is a lousy salute and would not have passed in ‘basic’.
Must have been some serious drinking going on that night....
absolutely
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