 Bergdahl's waiver was approved in late May 2008, and he was issued orders to Fort Benning, Georgia, for Infantry 1 station unit training, where civilians were turned into infantrymen. His parents didn't take the news as badly as Beau had feared. Janney was relieved that he would no longer be traveling the world alone. Bob thought the structured life would do him good. Reading the news at the time, he also believed that the Taliban was on the run and the risk of serious combat was low.