11-03-2017, 12:15 PM
Sentence
That was a fast closing and final decision-making process.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will serve no prison time for endangering his fellow soldiers when he walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban.
Army Col. Judge Jeffery R. Nance said Bergdahl will be dishonorably discharged and have his rank reduced to private.
Nance said Bergdahl will also have to pay a fine of $10,000 ($1,000 a month for the next 10 months).
Judge Nance issued the ruling Friday after nearly two weeks of sentencing proceedings that included testimony by Bergdahl's former comrades. Bergdahl, 31, was held by the Taliban for five years before being released in a prisoner swap in 2014.
Kenneth Dahl, the Army general who led the investigation into Bergdahl's actions and interviewed the soldier for a day and a half, previously testified in a preliminary hearing that jail time would be "inappropriate."
He explained that during his time in captivity, Bergdahl said he was tortured, beaten and spent months chained to a bed or locked in a cage while his health deteriorated. For five years, he said, he was completely isolated, had no concept of time and was told he would be killed and never see his family again.
Refs:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/b...ch+Results
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sgt-bowe-be...ison-time/
That was a fast closing and final decision-making process.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will serve no prison time for endangering his fellow soldiers when he walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban.
Army Col. Judge Jeffery R. Nance said Bergdahl will be dishonorably discharged and have his rank reduced to private.
Nance said Bergdahl will also have to pay a fine of $10,000 ($1,000 a month for the next 10 months).
Judge Nance issued the ruling Friday after nearly two weeks of sentencing proceedings that included testimony by Bergdahl's former comrades. Bergdahl, 31, was held by the Taliban for five years before being released in a prisoner swap in 2014.
Kenneth Dahl, the Army general who led the investigation into Bergdahl's actions and interviewed the soldier for a day and a half, previously testified in a preliminary hearing that jail time would be "inappropriate."
He explained that during his time in captivity, Bergdahl said he was tortured, beaten and spent months chained to a bed or locked in a cage while his health deteriorated. For five years, he said, he was completely isolated, had no concept of time and was told he would be killed and never see his family again.
Refs:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/b...ch+Results
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sgt-bowe-be...ison-time/