Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who pleaded guilty Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says his Taliban captors were more “honest” with him than the Army has been since his release three years ago.



“At least the Taliban were honest enough to say, ‘I’m the guy who’s gonna cut your throat,’ ” Bergdahl tells British TV journalist Sean Langan in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine of London headlined "The Homecoming from Hell."

Langan, too, is a former Taliban hostage.

Bergdahl, 31, from Hailey, Idaho, says he never quite knew where he stood with the Army as he performed “administrative duties” while awaiting his desertion trial.

“Here, it could be the guy I pass in the corridor who’s going to sign the paper that sends me away for life,’’ he says. “We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs.”

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What kind of sentencing could Bergdahl face?
Bergdahl is expected to appear for sentencing Monday in a military courtroom in Fort Bragg, N.C., after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.


He could face life in prison

 

Kill that sumbitch.

 

I know someone who still doesn't get it, and it isn't Bergdahl.

 

He should be happy his is only getting life in prison.
He betrayal should cost him his life.

 

CHAD GARCIA: Ask these 19 men if Bowe Bergdahl is a hero

• BY CHAD GARCIA
• 14 min ago

The year was 2011 and I had orders assigning me to 4th Brigade (Airborne), 25th Infantry at Fort Richardson, Alaska. I requested that duty station earlier in the year because this was the next Airborne infantry unit deploying to Afghanistan.

The date for the unit’s deployment was late November. I was eager to deploy to a combat zone as a team leader and living in Alaska would be a great experience for my family and me. My assignment eventually had me reporting to Chaos Troop, 1st/40th (Recon).

I didn’t know the unit’s history, so the first thing I did once I was settled in was to go visit the small memorial out front of Brigade Headquarters. There was one monument with the names of 19 soldiers who had been killed in action; I was aware that the unit had two previous deployments, but I didn’t know that they had lost that many men.

I asked the soldiers in my unit a lot of questions since the upcoming deployment was going to be in the same area of operations as the second deployment. I quickly learned about the mountainous terrain in Afghanistan and about the many fire fights and missions that they took part in.

I became very familiar with the names of a few soldiers who were killed on that second deployment. I was told that the outpost I was going to be living on, Combat Outpost Deysie, was named after Private First Class Tyler Deysie, who was killed in 2008. Private First Class Devoe was another name that I came to know well.

But one name stood out: Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl. All that I knew of him up until then was that he was first American soldier to be captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan and that he had still not been found. However, the looks on the faces of my fellow soldiers told me there was more to the story.

What really happened was far different from what was being told through the media. Bowe Bergdahl wasn’t just captured by enemy forces on some mission gone bad. He left his post in the middle of the night. He broke the First General Order that every soldier learns in Basic Training and abandoned his post. He betrayed his unit and his country during a time of war while serving in a war zone.

Private First Class Bergdahl was the Benedict Arnold of our time.

I would come to learn that many of the 19 men killed on that second deployment lost their lives while searching for Bergdahl. It was no wonder that the men in my unit were angry. That third deployment would come soon enough and we would lose men then as well.

My soldier and friend, Corporal Ethan Martin, would lose his life on Aug. 12, 2012. Private First Class Vincent Ellis, another member of Chaos Troop, would also be killed. Three of my friends would be medically evacuated due to combat wounds. The enemy we fought was the same enemy that had “captured” Bergdahl years before.

In 2014, when I heard that now-Sgt. Bergdahl was coming home, I was happy because I knew the Army would be quick to pass the correct punishment on him. But that didn’t happen. Instead, then President Obama welcomed him home as hero.

I was astonished and angry at what I saw on television. I was even more angry that, due to his status as “missing in action,” he was promoted the entire time he was in enemy hands — to the very rank which I had earned through blood, sweat, and tears.

Fast forward to present time. Bergdahl has pleaded guilty in a military court to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. An Army judge is expected to sentence him soon. He could be sent to prison for life.

Bowe Bergdahl is no hero. More than 30 men have been killed or critically injured while searching for him and fighting the men he was living with. Mothers lost sons. Wives lost husbands. Children lost fathers. I lost a friend.

Soldiers do not “like” war. We chose to go so that we can serve something greater than ourselves. We took oaths and did our jobs whether we liked it or not.

But one soldier chose to ignore his duty and turn his back on his brothers and his country. He deserves any punishment that the Uniformed Code of Military Justice delivers to him.

Chad Garcia graduated from Stockdale High School in 2000 and immediately went to work in the Kern County oilfields. He enlisted in the National Guard in 2002 and the U.S. Army in 2005, serving as an Airborne infantryman until 2014.

 

The admission is in; the sentence awaits us. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl admitted deserting his Afghan post and endangering fellow troops. By all accounts this is the most serious betrayal of presidential authority in my life time.



In 2014 President Obama attempted to cover Bergdahl with the achievement of a war hero, even inviting his Idaho based parents to the Rose Garden to celebrate news of his release. President Obama pointed out at the time that five Taliban leaders were freed from Guantanamo so that Bergdahl could be released from captivity. To gild the lily, National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, said Bergdahl served “the United States with honor and distinction.”

 

I served in Vietnam in 1967-68. Bergdahl should be served with potatoes and gravy.

 

OBAMA TRADED A TRAITOR FOR THE RELEASE OF 5 TERRORISTS AND $5 BILLION!…THINK ABOUT IT!

Obama should be hanged with him-----

 

I heard about what this yo-yo said;

being treated worse in the U.S. than he was by the taliban

That is a hangable offense...the mother fuckin' cock bite no good piece of shit.

 

If everything is right in the world donnie should let the Sgt go on his merry way, considering donnie himself dodged the draft five times with bogus excuses.

 

Give him life listening to endless speeches by SFLR on how she was denied the office she was destined to hold. Within a week he will beg to be hung.

 

Anyone know why he plead guilty?
From I what know ( admittedly very little ) He could have just said he was taking a piss and was captured. . . not that it matters now I guess.

 

he knew he was guilty and under the Trump era he was hoping to get leniency of the sentence....

 

Just seems a little odd to me, To be the kind of person to desert and then when the opportunity arises to say "Yes I did" instead of " Shit man I was looking for a place to piss"

 

he had plenty of safe places to piss when he took from the camp....

 

Kill the son of a bitch.

 

firing Squad would be ok but not sure he is worth the cost of the round
And anon-de-plume yes most people that go into the service do have some idea of what their getting into.
but you being a limpdick never served so you wouldn't have a clue

 

did anyone hear what the JAG gave this piss-ant?

 

Yes you still don't