U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was arraigned Tuesday on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl was held captive by the Taliban for five years after he left his post in Afghanistan in 2009. Some soldiers resented the military resources devoted to searching for Bergdahl, and Republicans criticized the Obama administration for the deal that freed him in a prisoner swap with the Taliban in 2014. And as part of Bergdahl’s release, the White House agreed to release five Taliban prisoners held at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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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”.
He appeared Tuesday at an arraignment hearing on charges of desertion and endangering troops.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (second from the right) leaves a military courthouse on December 22.
Bergdahl was charged by the Army with “desertion and misbehavior before the enemy” for voluntarily walking off his base in Afghanistan in 2009.
“These are people who are able to sort out the difference between extremely aggravated offenses and offenses committed by people who just make really stupid decisions”, Corn said. I could be what it is that every… you know, all those guys out there who go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that.
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.
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The Army Times reported that Gen. Robert Abrams, the commanding general of Forces Command, made the referral.
