Robert Bowe Bergdahl Case Study
Robert Bowdrie (Bowe) Bergdahl is a United States Army sergeant who left his post in Afghanistan 2009 purposefully and intentionally. The Bowe Bergdahl case is an odd case that sometimes does not make much sense. He will be facing court-martial sometime this year for is desertion and misbehavior. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is very similar to regular law, but has some adjustments that pertain to certain military rules and regulations. Bergdahl violated one of the most important rules and the first General Order, these orders are a soldier’s guideline on how to conduct themselves. Main Point 1: The main laws Bowe broke intentionally were Article 99 “misbehavior before the enemy” and Article 85 “Desertion” Both of these charges are
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10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 69.) These nine clauses above are directly from the United States Military Code of Justice, which are military law.
Bowe is by my count guilty of six of the nine above contingencies, and these are only the details of an Article 99 violation. Bowe Bergdahl first tried to enter into the United States Coast Guard before entering the Army, where he was discharged only 26 days after enlistment due to a mental breakdown. Although some think that is enough to not admit him to any other military service he later joined the Army through the proper channels and with a …show more content…
He is a PFC and he is coming in here telling me that the battalion commander isn’t fit for duty. He just got into the Army, this PFC. He is nothing.” (serialpodcast.org, EO111, 2016) which sounds like fairly logical thinking, but when you have had 5 years to think of all the things that have passed you have a lot of time to make things sound convincing, and the realization of what you have done has really been imbedded in your mind, a person in that situation is no doubt going to try to make up whatever they can to gain credibility, and with no one else backing his story to me it becomes highly unbelievable. He said to those calling him a Taliban sympathizer that on a PBS report “a complete joke” and, “You would have to be completely stupid to think that you could desert in the middle of a war zone.” (PBS NEWSHOUR, 2016) But if you read of his story to track the Taliban on his way from post Mest to fob Sharan saying, “The idea was not to make contact with them but actually to just trail them.” (PBS NEWSHOUR, 2016) His logic is just as flawed.
The United States Army does not intentionally under supply units that are in remote places. Logistics are extremely difficult, and commanders have to make the best decisions for the unit as a whole and the means sometimes supplies are shortcoming. Living on MRE (meals
10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 69.) These nine clauses above are directly from the United States Military Code of Justice, which are military law.
Bowe is by my count guilty of six of the nine above contingencies, and these are only the details of an Article 99 violation. Bowe Bergdahl first tried to enter into the United States Coast Guard before entering the Army, where he was discharged only 26 days after enlistment due to a mental breakdown. Although some think that is enough to not admit him to any other military service he later joined the Army through the proper channels and with a …show more content…
He is a PFC and he is coming in here telling me that the battalion commander isn’t fit for duty. He just got into the Army, this PFC. He is nothing.” (serialpodcast.org, EO111, 2016) which sounds like fairly logical thinking, but when you have had 5 years to think of all the things that have passed you have a lot of time to make things sound convincing, and the realization of what you have done has really been imbedded in your mind, a person in that situation is no doubt going to try to make up whatever they can to gain credibility, and with no one else backing his story to me it becomes highly unbelievable. He said to those calling him a Taliban sympathizer that on a PBS report “a complete joke” and, “You would have to be completely stupid to think that you could desert in the middle of a war zone.” (PBS NEWSHOUR, 2016) But if you read of his story to track the Taliban on his way from post Mest to fob Sharan saying, “The idea was not to make contact with them but actually to just trail them.” (PBS NEWSHOUR, 2016) His logic is just as flawed.
The United States Army does not intentionally under supply units that are in remote places. Logistics are extremely difficult, and commanders have to make the best decisions for the unit as a whole and the means sometimes supplies are shortcoming. Living on MRE (meals