He was captured by the Taliban and now the US got him back and is trying to put him in prison. His name is Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier, who left his post in Afghanistan to tell another commander about how his unit needed new leaders because the current ones were dangerous. When he was going to another base, in 2009, he was captured by the Taliban and tortured for five years. During this time rescue attempts were made and many were injured in them. The US was able to negotiate to get him back in exchange for five high ranking taliban leaders that were held in Guantanamo Bay. When he was brought back, he was brought to military court and he is currently being persecuted for up to life in prison. Two years before he joined the army, he attempted…show more content… Bergdahl had PTSD and a schizophrenia-like condition that he developed before he went into the military according to Dr. Charles Morgan. With these two conditions he shouldn’t have been allowed to join the army, even the coast guard did not let him join two years before he joined the army. Bergdahl had developed PTSD in his childhood, “[He had developed] post-traumatic stress disorder before his 2008 Army enlistment largely from growing up with a quick-tempered father,”(Drew). Bergdahl had developed a condition that most people develop in the army not before it. Bergdahl developed PTSD due to his father, and his father didn’t try to kill him. The army should have conducted more psychological test to determine if he was mentally ready to join the military before they sent him out of training camp. If the army performed these then they would have known that, Bergdahl’s conditions made it hard for him to see what the consequences of his actions would be, “The disorder makes it difficult for Bergdahl to see how his actions will impact others, Morgan said.”(Drew). He may not have left his post in Afghanistan if he never had these disorders. Since it was difficult to see what would happen if he left his post, Bergdahl didn’t know that this would happen. If Bergdahl didn’t have any of these psychological disorders, then it…show more content… Many were injured in an attempt to rescue Bergdahl from the Taliban. During Bergdahl’s trial an injured soldier testified about his injuries, “Jonathan Morita describ[ed] how his hand was shattered by a rocket-propelled grenade.” (Drew). This caused Morita to lose his hand, but since he enlisted in the army there was a possibility that this could have happened. If Bergdahl never abandoned his post, Morita would have been put on a different mission that could have killed him. Instead of just losing a hand Morita could have lost his life if he wasn’t put on a mission to save Bergdahl. If Bergdahl had never left his post, then his unit’s dangerous leaders could have caused the whole unit to die instead of just one person losing a hand on a mission to save Bergdahl instead of going on a more dangerous mission. There were many injured on a mission to save Bergdahl that blame him for their injuries, but as stated by Bergdahl’s lawyers, "Enemy forces were the direct cause of the horrific wounds to Master Sgt. Allen,"(Drew). Bergdahl is not to blame for their injuries as the enemy was the one that caused these injuries. Bergdahl never meant to hurt any of the US soldiers, instead he tried to help his whole unit by putting himself at a risk that lead him to be tortured for five years. If these soldiers never tried to rescue Bergdahl then the Taliban could have seen
