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Serial

5 O’Clock Shadow

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Why did Bowe Bergdahl walk off?

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0:00.0

First plan was go from point A to point B. That was it.

0:06.0

Previously, not serial.

0:08.0

O. P. Mest. It's probably the worst place, humanly imaginable.

0:12.0

That place sucks.

0:13.2

And you had the little bucket, everyone shit in.

0:16.2

And then he was in the town asking if people spoke English.

0:20.2

I'd rather be sitting in Leavenworth, been over the body of Nausei Amento or Coe or somebody like that.

0:27.0

Far notice in a koochy tent?

0:29.0

Kicking indoors one minute.

0:30.0

Fricking cow has a baby.

0:32.0

This is our mission.

0:33.0

He's one of our guys.

0:34.0

We gotta find him.

0:35.0

We're gonna do it.

0:36.0

If we would have found him, I think a lot of us would have shot him.

0:39.0

Yeah.

0:40.0

Yeah, I still, I still, I'm still, I think I'm still angry about it. Before Mark started asking Bo what happened, why'd he walk away from his platoon,

0:56.0

Bo had already talked about it to General Kenneth Dahl. Dahl was in charge of

1:01.1

investigating what Bo did and writing up a report for the Army.

1:05.1

His inquiry was confined to the period that led up to Bo's decision to leave, not Bo's time

1:09.9

with the Taliban or anything, just why did he walk? Mark asked Bo about the

1:14.3

statement he gave General Dahl. How long is your statement?

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