Bowe Bergdahl

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion#Iraq_War

Beware of using Wiki, I seem to remember some Brit guy saying that.

If you look at the referenced sources to that wiki article it's just some civilian media articles, no actual Pentagon report to back them up is listed. What they're probably doing is lumping awol soldiers in with actual deserters to inflate the numbers, not unlikely given the politics of the time. Just look at the dates of the articles referenced. I don't think Armistead advocates executing every young GI who comes back a day or three late from a weekend pass.