Bergdahl, from Idaho, walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province on June 30, 2009.
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Berdgahl was released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees. He was returned to the U.S.in 2014 in exchange for five Taliban prisoners.
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Bergdahl was held captive by the Taliban for five years after he left his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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He said trying the case will “determine once and for all if Bowe Bergdahl is a hero or a deserter”. The arraignment was held at Fort Bragg, N.C., where Bergdahl is being held.
At his hearing, the Associated Press reports, Bergdahl, 29, did not enter a plea, and did not decide whether he wants to face a military trial by jury or exclusively a judge.
Bergdahl’s lawyer, Eugene Fidell, has said the army did not follow the advice of a preliminary hearing officer in choosing to pursue a general court-martial over a special court-martial, which is a misdemeanour-level forum.
The Army recently announced that he will face a general court-martial on the charges.
But General Robert Abrams, the head of U.S. Army Forces Command, ultimately chose to refer the case to a general court martial. His case has gained notoriety as the latest focus of the popular podcast Serial, which has broadcast Bergdahl’s recorded telephone conversations with filmmaker Mark Boal. And he said he wanted to prove himself as a real-life action hero. “You know, and the constant worry of, ‘Am I going to die today?'”
Troops were injured and killed looking for Bergdahl, Buetow said, and others in his platoon were in constant fear that Bergdahl would give up information – either voluntarily or via torture – that would endanger them.
For his part, the sergeant has told a Hollywood screenwriter researching for a movie that he walked off base in a bid to prove he was capable of solo heroics like fictional ex-CIA assassin Jason Bourne.
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The case was also considered inherently hard to prosecute, partly because of the still murky nature of Bergdahl’s intentions and state of mind in leaving in his base in Afghanistan, and because of the years between the alleged crimes and an actual court martial.
