The first recipient of the Honorary "Bowe Bergdahl" Goodwill and Military Exchange Program Ambassadorship to North Korea has been named by the Bai-Din Administration.

Private Second Class Travis King has crossed into North Korea from the South, deserting from the military modifying his assigned duty station under his own initiative. His method of transit was approved by Border Czar and Vice President Kamala (see, there's no problem with southern borders) Harris.

Having just been released from South Korean incarceration and subjected to show trial Non-Judicial Punishment in his unit, Ambassador King evaded the oppressors military officials who were about to put him on a plane back to the U.S. to face further military justice, hid for a day while he joined a tour group to the Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom. At the time of his choosing, he sprinted to the welcoming arms of the North Korean People's Republic where he will be a guest for some time, as most of the "good" prisoners in the U.S. were either previously released from Guantanamo, or traded for Brittany Griner.

As a Private Second Class, King's limited vast trove of military knowledge, discipline, and decision making skills will be most helpful to his hosts once he begins to confess share.

As with "Sergeant" Bowe Berghdahl's absence in Afghanistan, King is still taking up valuable space on the personnel roster of his unit, his pay and allowances will accrue in his absence, and he will be promoted as he normally would over time.

This story is developing, updates as they happpen, films at eleven.

Ivan the Stakhanovets, reporting. Now back to our regular programming.

Served since 2021 but still an E-2 (should be an E-4 by now).

Awards—National Defense Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal and Overseas Service Ribbon—are all automatic, based only on assignment to South Korea, not merit. 

Conclusion: low-speed, high-drag.

He has earned a Bowe Bergdahl challenge coin.

Good Colonel,

The People's hero was incarcerated by S. Korean officials, then NJP'd ...

(for our friends playing at home, NJP=Non-Judicial Punishment, a form of military show-trial where the Company or Battalion commander (who in either case is judge, jury, and executioner; Battalion commanders having about double the punishment options of the Company commander) brings in the guilty son of a bitch, listens to his flimsy excuses, matters of extenuation and mitigation, then assigns guilt and appropriate punishment. The knucklehead is entitled (ORDERED) to see a lawyer who explains the process and what rights the soldier has before the final action takes place. It takes about 7 minutes start to finish when you're in practice. Now, back to our story.)

...where he most likely was maxed out losing one or more stripes, a month or so of pay and allowances, and working (cough) "Extra Duty" for the First Sergeant or Sergeant-Major for some period of time for being AWOL while in the Korean slammer.

In the meantime, because his Korean chain of command decided he wasn't playing by the rules enough, (indicating OTHER infractions) that Comrade King needed to go home to Ft. Bliss where his real chain of command could conduct the Coup de Gras REAL military justice "in -house" so that the units in Korea can continue to show they don't really need to do General or Special Courts-Martial because... (it reflects badly on Pentagon charts).
That's my assessment from here in Central Texazistan.


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In my military mind, this dirtbag has seen PV2 more than once.

Happy trails.

Army Times says my initial suspicions are fairly accurate..

Lest we forget...

(I'd forgotten I altered his name to Bowe Al-Bergdahl...)

Wait, wait, wait, Ivan of Texazistan’s Tractor Barn #2. This new NOKO Ambassador by the Christian name, TRAVIS, is going to enjoy the BLISS of a Military Fort, in Texazistan? Hope the Indigenous Peoples Sweat Box is available. August is just around the calendar’s corner. Coool….

Comrade Hornybunny,

Having grown up on the installation of Fort Bliss, I can assure you that Ambassador King's pro/con list between North Korea and a return to Fort Bliss was not a difficult or lengthy process. It is "Bliss" in name only. (Army Ranger training needed to add desert warfare to their curriculum and needed to find a place to torment/train their students under the worst possible conditions... Fort Irwin in the heart of Death Valley California was too pleasant, the Army trains Rangers in Fort Bliss Texas.) No doubt in his military mind that he was better off in North Korea.

I was taught that the polite thing to say in the witness of a complete dumbass is "wow, You may be right..." without saying the rest of it (...but probably not). Travis King may be right about going to North Korea.

Homie Travis is going through Fort Bliss only long enough for a quick General or Special Courts-Martial, to have his paperwork rubberstamped, forwarding his butt to complete his new extension of his enlistment (his US Prison sentence which Premier Cho Bai-Din will commute) at his next assignment at yet another "garden spot" of military installations, the shiny new U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Kansas, where he can hang out with Nidal Hassan and other Federal (military) Offenders sentenced to 2 years and a day or more... USDB is different and just down the road a piece from the Federal slammer at (town of) Leavenworth Kansas. Never pick up hitch-hikers in northeast Kansas...

Ivan of Texazistan’s Tractor Barn #2,

So, what you’re telling ‘pelipsky is Homie Travis (a name renowned in Texazistan’s independent nature) will not suffer the native stress test of being stripped nekkid and staked spread eagle on a fire ant mound located in an open pasture of Texazistan’s proving grounds.

Instead, Travis King will enjoy a cell block with a bunk, plumbing, and electricity in Kansas. Just say, God bless America!

Indeed. Military Justice is like military music; neither is very good, but they get the job done.

While our new hero muchly deserves the ant-pile in the mid-day sun treatment, he's going to Kansas...

Oh, the horror... the HORROR...

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote: ↑

7/23/2023, 12:01 pm

...he's going to Kansas...

Unless, Travis is whisked off by a Political Climate Change Twister, and the Great Cho Bai-den makes him Ambassador to North Korea for financial laundry business purposes.

Don't say, "It couldn't happen", comrades. This is next Tuesday.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-regi ... tally-ill/

Had enough? Now, click your boots, and repeat, "There's no place like Small Town, Kansas."

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote: ↑

7/19/2023, 7:38 pm

Lest we forget...

(I'd forgotten I altered his name to Bowe Al-Bergdahl...)

Free at last… dishonor is the new honor guard.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/0 ... onviction/

‘America should fight for’ Travis King’s return after soldier defected to North Korea, his family says

in a report to NBC news, Uncle Myron said “When he went to the Army to fight for America, America should fight for him, fight for him to come home,”

Uncle Myron doesn't get that Little Travis (he a goot boi) didn't fight for Amerikka, he fought AGAINST Amerikkan soldiers and what they stand for. Multiple charges of assault do not make him a stellar soldier.

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This kid has hit a new level of worthlessness. US Soldiers are taught to evade and resist because (as they taught us) "the US will not negotiate with terrorists for your release." However the same US will trade international terrorists for the release of a lesbian WNBA player (I know, that's redundant all over again...) but Travis King doesn't even rise to any level of concern.

Decisions have consequences. Travis can live with his captors for five years, spend a while in Leavenworth, then he will be pardoned for all of his foolishness. Just like his role model, Bowe Al-Berghdal.