U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner after leaving his combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 to bring attention to alleged poor leadership, will be arraigned on Tuesday on charges spurred by his disappearance.
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Bergdahl was freed during the Obama administration’s prisoner swap in late May 2014 in which five high-ranking Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were exchanged.
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Instead, he was captured by the Taliban and held captive for five years.
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Bergdahl stands charged with one count of desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty, aka Article 85, and one count of misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place, aka Article 99.
Bergdahl, wearing a blue dress uniform, said little, offering “Yes, sir” or “No, sir” answers to the judge’s questions or allowing his lawyer to speak on his behalf. However, Army General Robert Abrams did not agree with that decision and decided a few weeks ago to press charges through a general court-martial, which carries much more serious penalties.
Major General Kenneth Dahl recommended the soldier’s case be moved to a special misdemeanour-level military court.
At the time, Bergdahl’s defense attorney, Eugene Fidell, said in a statement that the defense team “hoped the case would not go in this direction”. And they argued that he was not a Taliban sympathizer and had merely been overly idealistic and disillusioned when he walked off the base, with the aim of reporting concerns about his unit. But he’s also accused of “misbehavior before the enemy”, a rarely-invoked charge in which prosecutors only have to prove that Bergdahl ” endanger[ed] fellow soldiers when he ‘left without authority; and wrongfully caused search and recovery operations, ‘”according to Military Times. “I was capable of being what I appeared to be”, Bergdahl said. King said the judge scheduled the next hearing for January 12.
The hearing lasted 15 minutes and Bergdahl, who was represented by a military lawyer, asked to be represented by civilian counsel in future appearances.
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The leader of Bergdahl’s platoon, Sgt. Evan Buetow, told CNN this year that he felt Bergdahl’s actions were “completely dishonorable” and he doesn’t believe Bergdahl was trying to expose problems in his platoon. Doing what I did was me saying I am like Jason Bourne.
