Friends reveal that Bowe Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard on account of a failed psychological exam two years before he enlisted in the Army and shipped off to Afghanistan. Bergdahl sent a box containing his laptop and personal journals to a friend in Idaho shortly before he walked off the Army base in Afghanistan in 2009 and she has shared the concerning writings with The Washington Post. Some of the more bizarre excerpts feature his rantings about the wisdom of the protagonist in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, his desire to learn Russian and 'Chines' and how he wanted to write a story about someone 'going-crazy-to wander the earth alone'.
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Close friend of Bowe Bergdahl has shared the journals and writings on his laptop that he sent to her shortly before walking off the Army base
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'The closer I get to ship day, the voices are,' he wrote in one entry shortly before being sent to Afghanistan
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She was the one who drove him to take the Coast Guard test in 2006 and he told her he 'purposefully flunked' the psychological exam
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She didn't believe him and thought he had emotional issues
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He enlisted in the Army two years later and officials allegedly knew that he had a prior 'administrative discharge'
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