![]() ![]() As the exhaustiveness of General Dahl’s report shows, it might be an experience that even higher-ranking officers have trouble accessing. ![]() ![]() It was packed with tidbits of information, details, rules, and Army culture that most civilians are never exposed to. “I needed to explain where it began.”Īs a former Infantry grunt myself, this was an episode after my own heart. “He wanted to understand who I was as a person,” Bergdahl says of General Dahl. It’s a great way to kick off an episode that deals with just that: the surprising amount of context that most people probably aren’t even aware exists in the Bergdahl case, specifically the frustrations of an average grunt on the front lines of the Global War on Terror. “What did you do, tell him every fucking meal you had while deployed?” jokes Boal during a call with Bergdahl - who, for his part, seems amused by Boal’s shock. Bowe Bergdahl poses in front of an American flag.Įpisode six begins with Mark Boal being absolutely shocked that General Kenneth Dahl’s debrief of Bergdahl (which just covered what led to his decision to walk off the post, not his captivity) was over 300 pages long. In this undated image provided by the U.S.
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