Moving DKos post. Bergdahl witnessed killing of child in 2009. It was covered up.

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77. Second Section is Disingenuous and Mis-leading

That second section of the article has nothing to do with Bergdahl. That was not his unit and he never witness any of the "Kill Teams" actions,(BTW they were found guilty and punished severely). So others in this OP are equating one with the other and that is not proper reporting. It is a cover smear that tries to taint your mind into sympathy toward Bergdahl. You are condemning people for hating on him without all of the facts but this author is and you are doing the same thing in the opposite direction. So only Bergdahl saw that child killed, only Bergdahl had a hard deployment. I see lots of others cutting him lots of slack but none to the others that were in the exact same places as him. They quote the RS article as it is Bible to smear all the other troops as screw ups, malcontents and mass murderers in the waiting while they all faced exactly the same situations that Bergdahl did. As far as we know, non of the other members of that unit has even got a ticket for J-walking since that time but we know they are no good some how.
Also pertaining to the RS article, Bergdahl comes off as a terrible Troop that enlisted for all the wrong reasons and probably would not have been deployed but for the fact of the Surge. He looks like a wannabe Tragic Hero that could not wait to get into combat. Anyone looking for War is an asshole that needs to carefully watched for signs of possible mental break down. That is where Bergdahl was definitely failed by his leadership. We also see his emails and it is only from his point of view, a PV1 who had about as much time in the Army to have a cup of coffee, but all of a sudden we are to take his word on these things like he is some kind of Military Expert. Not even close. He is what we used to call a General Private, knew everything and if only he was in charge the Army would be sooooooo much better.
All the Troops involved are neither Hero's nor Villains. Just men, some boys, sent to do a terrible job that lots of others could not or would not do. Sent there by a Government who's civilian population did not control it and thus failed to do it's Civic duty to those men and woman in Uniform. "It was not their War, It was Bushes" You want to know who the real 1% is. That is the percentage of the population that bore the brunt of the fighting

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/americans-and-their-military-drifting-apart.html
http://www.cohenresearchgroup.com/media/ciav_201006.pdf
The other false info believed even by Vets themselves is that we are tragically damaged and kill ourselves from what we have seen. That is not true. Suicide rate increase among the Military has numerous factors not excluding economic factors as well as previous mental health problems.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/military-suicide-study_n_3719850.html
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130806/NEWS/308060037/New-study-Suicides-not-linked-combat-exposure
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/17/majority-of-military-suicides-never-saw-combat.html