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Bowe Bergdahl being flown from Germany to US
Fox News ^ | June 12, 2014

Posted on 06/12/2014 11:58:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who spent five years as a captive in Afghanistan before being traded for five high-profile Taliban leaders, is coming back to the United States sometime late tonight or early tomorrow morning, Fox News has learned.

Bergdahl, who has been undergoing unspecified treatment at a U.S. facility in Landstuhl, Germany, since he was turned over to the U.S. on May 31, will be flown to Brook Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio. It is not known how long he will remain there or if and when he will be questioned about the circumstances behind his apparently voluntary departure from an Army base in Afghanistan in 2009....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: Texas
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To: kenmcg

It’s called the stockade in the Army, brig is what the Naval services call it.


21 posted on 06/12/2014 12:26:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: red-dawg
You read Frederick Forsyth's Fist of God I take it?
22 posted on 06/12/2014 12:27:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hopefully, they’ll provide the boy with a compass so he’ll always know the direction toward Mecca when he comes to our country.


23 posted on 06/12/2014 12:28:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: red-dawg

Remember the strange fate of those Navy Seals on that heilocopter leaving Pakistan right after Osama Bin Laden was ‘killed’? That Heliocopter blew up before it was even high in the air. I still don’t believe it was just bad luck and inefficient engine maintenance, not for one minute do I believe that. It would be ‘most unfortunate’ to the regime if Bowe (he of the inconvient truth) should come back running his mouth ‘unencumbered’.


24 posted on 06/12/2014 12:28:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No I have not, but I will put it on my reading list.
Thanks.
25 posted on 06/12/2014 12:43:00 PM PDT by red-dawg (<<< click for info on my book.)
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To: red-dawg

Great read.


26 posted on 06/12/2014 12:58:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting how in yesterday’s hearing, one of the congresscritters asked Hagel why he was not brought back to the US already and Hagel got pissed when it was implied that games were being played keeping him in Germany.

Well suddenly today he is being sent back. Curious....


27 posted on 06/12/2014 1:03:22 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: gunnut
In the most tense exchange of the hearing, Rep. Jeff Miller (R., Fla.) asks why the military hasn’t asked Sgt. Bergdahl about his capture by the Taliban and why he hasn’t been brought to a military hospital in the U.S. Mr. Hagel clearly took umbrage at Rep. Miller and said he doesn’t like “the implications” of the question. “This guy was held for five years in God knows what conditions,” Mr. Hagel said. Angrily, Mr. Hagel suggests the U.S. isn’t going to interfere with Sgt. Hagel’s medical care to begin an interrogation of him, and says members of Congress shouldn’t second guess the medical decisions.

From: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/11/live-blog-lawmakers-question-chuck-hagel-on-bowe-bergdahl-swap/

28 posted on 06/12/2014 1:08:27 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: gunnut

Video: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hagel-defends-prisoner-exchange-as-lawful/2014/06/11/4fa8490a-f174-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html


29 posted on 06/12/2014 1:10:53 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: gunnut

Time to shift the headlines from Iraq and do nothing and pullout


30 posted on 06/12/2014 2:17:05 PM PDT by tbird-james
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bowe Bergdahl being flown from Germany to US.... in handcuffs or in first class?


31 posted on 06/12/2014 2:57:59 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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