The U.S. Army may award up to $300,000 in American taxpayer funded-back payments for the time Bowe Bergdahl spent in Taliban captivity after he deserted his Afghanistan-based post in 2009 and prompted some of his colleagues to face death and injury while they searched for him.
The wife of a wounded soldier is expected to provide testimony against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at his sentencing hearing in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Monday.
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to plead guilty this month to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after being exchanged by the previous administration for five high-risk Taliban commanders in 2014.
The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals postponed legal proceedings in the desertion case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl over defense access to 300,000 pages of classified documents held by the government.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, who led the investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s disappearance from his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says he does not think the accused deserter will go to jail, adding that a prison sentence would be “inappropriate.”
Attorneys for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl released statement and a thirteen page letter that fails to offer any explanation as to why the soldier left his base in a combat zone. The letter offers many arguments as to why he should be charged with the lessor offense of being on an unauthorized absence (UA) but nothing about his motivations for leaving.
