During his brief arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Tuesday, Bergdahl deferred offering a plea in what was his first court appearance pertaining to charges that could carry a life sentence in prison.
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Bergdahl, originally of Hailey, Idaho, was just 23 years old and serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army at the base in southern Afghanistan’s Paktika province in 2009.
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The charges include desertion and “misbehavior before the enemy” for endangering the lives of the troops sent to look for him.
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Col. Frederick set the next pretrial hearing in Bergdahl’s case for January 12. Frederikson said Col. Jeffery Nance, another judge, “has been detailed for all future judicial hearings in this case”, according to a news release.
Bergdahl was arraigned Tuesday during a short hearing.
Parents… President Barack Obama with Bowe Bergdahl’s parents, Jani Bergdahl, left, and Bob Bergdahl, at a White House press conference in 2014.
If convicted on a charge of desertion, Bergdahl could serve up to five years in prison, receive a dishonorable discharge, lose his rank and forfeit all pay.
Bergdahl hasn’t talked publicly about what happened, but over the past several months, he spoke extensively with screenwriter Mark Boal, who shared about 25 hours of the recorded interviews with Sarah Koenig for her popular podcast, “Serial”.
Instead, he said, Taliban fighters on motorcycles, armed with AK-47s, found him walking along a desert road and took him captive. “I was trying to find a solution to the problem at hand”. However, the Pentagon has said that it has no proof that anyone died amid search efforts for Bergdahl.
But General Robert Abrams, the head of U.S. Army Forces Command, ultimately chose to refer the case to a general court martial.
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The charges against Bergdahl had been announced by the Army in March, before Visger reviewed the evidence as part of an Article 32 proceeding, which is similar to a grand jury.
