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Old. the army sergeant's gun, bulletproof vest and his night vision goggles were all found in his bunk. from that moment the u.s. military would spend almost five years looking for and negotiating for bergdahl's release. >> our commanders are sparing no effort to find this young soldier. >> reporter: it's a saga that still isn't over for the soldier who is now 28 years old. when bowe bergdahl disappeared, he was stationed at a u.s. military outpost in paktika province in southeastern afghanistan. he was supposed to be on a guard shift that night. this is his first deployment as a u.s. soldier,...

Get it. direct that anger at the policy, at the people who kept us there in that war, who five years later those guys died and the civil war there, that war is still going on and we're leaving. it's appropriate to be angry. appropriate to be frustrated. appropriate to be upset. i would urge you to look at the policy makers and generals and politicians who kept this war going. >> josh, what do you say to that? >> i really appreciate you and what you're saying. i understand where you're coming from. >> well, the biggest thing i have to say to that is basically the same thing i've been saying all...

Know, you don't just leave your fellow americans to join somebody else. >> explain that to us. civilians who have never as you guys did volunteered our service in our lives potentially to protect america think he was disillusioned, he was scared. he walked off. help us understand what a -- >> iraq is not an easy time. a combat zone is not an easy time. everybody is struggling. >> we're not there because it's easy. we're there to do a hard job and that's what you signed up to do. >> what's the best evidence you had the night he went missing and ultimately wound up captured, he was doing it inte...

Black foot company, life in afghanistan was hot and dusty. their mission always dangerous, and at times, frustrating. >> these people are so fickle, man. >> and to some, futile. >> these people just want to be left alone. >> -- from the russian for 17 years and now we're here. >> for private bowe bergdahl, the war left him deeply disillusioned. in an e-mail obtained by "rolling stone" magazine but not independently verified by cnn bergdahl wrote of the horrors of war. i am sorry for everything here, bowe told his parents. these people need help. what they get is the most conceded country in th...

What they get is the most conceded country in the world telling them they are nothing, they are stupid, they have no idea how to live. the horror that is america is disgusting, he wrote. and two days later, bowe bergdahl disappeared. >> he was about to go on guard shift. someone went to wake him up for his shift and that's when they found out he was not there. >> bergdahl's gun, his bulletproof vest, night vision goggles asker all accounted for. but the soldier himself vanished. >> they said, is he up there? i got on the radio, said, no, he's not up there. and they got back on the radio and sa...