During Operation’s Desert Shield and Desert Storm, I was a platoon sergeant in a well-known infantry division. I will attempt to explain here based upon my own unique experiences during those operations if Bowe Bergdahl’s chain of command could have or should have removed him from his platoon. We had been alerted that we would be deployed in support of Operation Desert Shield. During the period that we were drawing equipment, getting our shots, and getting our paperwork in order to deploy, I received a newbie (replacement) in my platoon.  The newbie was recently graduated from the infantry school and had only been in the military for three or four months. As I introduced myself and welcomed the newbie to my platoon he suddenly needed to speak to me. He told me that he had made a mistake joining the military and that he did not want to deploy overseas with the unit. Recognizing that the individual that I was speaking to was a human piece of excrement, I informed...(Read Full Post)