Bergdahl's Misbehavior Charge (Article 99)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3012770/Bowe-Bergdahl-describes-brutally-beaten-chained-inside-cage-forced-live-darkness-five-year-captivity.html

Under Article 99, Misbehavior:

Bergdahl may have been tricked or coerced to surrender himself to the enemy. The Taliban may have sent terrorists to threaten him, but possibly they could have simply pretended that someone was injured, on in need of medical care from his command. Sometimes terrorists bribe other U.S. service members with poly-addictions to recruit, traffick, kidnap or psychologically, physically and sexually abuse their own shipmates also.

Also, the Taliban could have potentially assassinated/bribed his Afghani "friends," and sent impersonating terrorists or radicalized locals to get his assistance in some manner. Knowing that he may have sympathized with local Afghan children, he could have been easily manipulated in that manner. He was merely 23 years of age when this happened, and seemed to be a more emotionally impulsive individual than most individuals. His recollections may also not be clear, as a result of his injuries and trauma.

People in the military, especially enlisted, have a different vocabulary level than the officers usually. It causes socioeconomic conflicts. I can see that he has had more coarse language at times, so it's possible he had socioeconomic conflicts with the administrative enlisted, who didn't use the type of language that he may have used. They may not be former infantry.

If threatened, or perceiving a threat from the newer chain of command, where he served administrative duties, his former enlisted, infantry status probably became a larger conflict. He probably became frustrated by the amount of bureaucracy, and high volumes of paperwork processing required in military administrative offices alone.

That also may have led to his desertion charge. The military can't realistically expect him to be completely positive about his infantry privilege being removed. He should never have been assigned to administrative duties in the first place, not due to misbehavior, but because of his infantry training. He would have done better if given an entire year to receive infantry-focused counseling, by other combat veterans, while working with neglected/abused horses, on a PTSD-friendly ranch.

To many male infantry soldiers, and law enforcement, that administrative reassignment is akin to revoking their right to carry any gun/rifle. Especially after being imprisoned, his reaction as a male, enlisted, infantry soldier is similar to how some law enforcement would react to their weapon being tampered with, or forcibly removed from them.