Gen. Robert Abrams of the U.S. Army Forces Command made the decision to proceed with a general court-martial after a preliminary hearing in September that led an Army lawyer to propose a milder proceeding: a special court-martial that carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail.
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The statement from Forces Command says that the date of the arraignment hearing will be announced later.
Sgt. Bergdahl left a tiny combat outpost June 29, 2009, just before midnight in an area in which the Taliban were known to operate.
A former USA soldier, who was freed in a controversial prisoner swap with the Afghan Taliban, will face a court-martial on charges of desertation and could face life in prison if convicted. “What was going on was a danger to the lives of the men of that company”, Bergdahl said on the podcast.
Mr Fidell also asked the House and Senate Armed Services committees to avoid further statements “that prejudice our client’s right to a fair trial”. A military expert who debriefed Bergdahl testified at the hearing that the soldier’s five years of captivity with the Taliban were the worst a USA prisoner of war has suffered in 60 years.
The Obama administration traded five Taliban commanders being held at Gitmo in return for Bergdahl.
Bergdahl who went missing in Afghanistan in 2009, was captured and held by the Taliban for five years.
This notion was unfathomable to the original army investigator in charge of the case, Lieutenant General Kenneth Dahl, who felt that jail time, under these circumstances, would be “inappropriate”.
Another motivation for leaving was “to prove to myself, to prove to the world, to anybody who used to know me, I was capable of being what I appeared to be”, he said. The first episode of the series features snippets of conversations between the soldier and filmmaker Mark Boal, who worked as a writer and producer on “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Hurt Locker”.
“Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don’t know, Jason Bourne”, Bergdahl said, referring to the movie character.
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Maj. Margaret Kurz described the search for Bergdahl in the most graphic terms, according to The New York Times.
