Informative Speech: Bowe Bergdahl

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Hello, I am cadet Bacon and I and i am going to be talking to you guys about a man by the name Bowe Bergdahl. Bowe Bergdahl was born on march 28, 1986. Bowe traveled in Europe before enlisting in the Army in 2008. He was assigned to the First Battalion, for year he did infantry and combat. In May 2009 he was deployed to the paktia,afghanistan. While there Bowe was starting to learn pashto. a person he was stationed with,Fry said Bergdahl “began to gravitate away from his unit.”spending more time with the Afgans then he did with his platoon.” Bowe was described as “pyscollogy isolated.” Things changed on June 25, 2009.A man named Brian Bradshaw was killed in a blast from a road side bombing. Bradshaw and Bergdahl had grown close together over

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