March 27, 2015
I was a Special Forces commander in Afghanistan when Bergdahl went missing, and I experienced firsthand the effect his disappearance had on our operations. Teams that should have been going after militants, or working with the Afghan people, instead focused on searching for a man widely understood to have walked off his post. Equipment was diverted. Key missions were scrapped. We sent our men into some of the most hostile areas of Afghanistan to look for him.