As reported by Fox News, “An Army officer is recommending that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl face a lower-level court martial and be spared the possibility of jail time for leaving his post in Afghanistan.”
Bergdahl was captured [Bergdahl was NEVER captured, he was apprehended after he voluntarily walked away from his base camp and even asked directions from locals along the way on how to reach the Taliban] by the Taliban after leaving his post on June 30, 2009, and held until last year, when he was exchanged for five Taliban commanders. His commanding officers in Afghanistan say a 45-day search for Bergdahl put soldiers in danger (resulting in 6 deaths).
Military prosecutors charged Bergdahl in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, a charge that could carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. But defense attorney Eugene Fidell said Lt. Col. Mark Visger has recommended that Sgt. Bergdahl’s case be referred to a special court martial, which is a misdemeanor-level forum. It limits the maximum punishment to reduction in rank, a bad-conduct discharge and a term of up to a year in prison.
Fidell also said that Visger recommended that there be no prison time or punitive discharge against Bergdahl.
According to Lt. Col. and former Congressman Allen West: If General Robert Abrams accepts the recommendation of LTC Visger, ladies and gents, you truly no longer have leadership in the U.S. Army. What you will have is a gathering of spineless lackeys who — for whatever reason — are intimidated by the Obama White House and the modern day Rasputin, Valerie Jarrett.
Bowe Bergdahl deserted his post in a combat zone; nothing else matters. There are no “mitigating factors” and there are no “highly discretionary matters.” That is just bovine excrement rhetoric used by someone who has no sense of duty, honor, or country.
The Article 32 officer should not have considered anything that happened post Bergdahl’s actions, since his desertion resulted in spending five years with the Taliban and Haqqani Network — a fate he deserved.
There was no poor command climate — Bergdahl deserted, and now this Article 32 officer believes this is just a misdemeanor. No, turning your back on your unit in a combat zone is clearly “misbehavior before the enemy.” Leaving your post without your weapon in a combat zone is desertion, not jaywalking.
His desertion resulted in 6 soldiers being killed while looking for him.
Donald Trump is taking care of Bowe Bergdhal.
Hopefully, he’ll also take of Nidal Hasan.
I suspect he will face punishment in a less formal and more unofficial situation.
It’s pitchfork and torch time ! Great for a Halloween celebration !
If traitor Obama could, he would make this filthy American-hating traitor the head of the entire U.S. military.
God help America and the Free World.
Obama abdicated his leadership of the Free World on the first day he occupied the White House.
Russia’s Putin is the new leader of the Free World.
He didn’t just desert. He went over to the enemy. He is a traitor.
vl, you make an important distinction there. During WWII there was a Private named Eddie Slovik, who fled the battlefield for the rear-areas, wandered around until he was caught, was convicted–and, EXECUTED for cowardice and desertion. But, unlike Slovik, Bergdahl didn’t just flee the battlefield–he went over to the enemy. That makes him not just a deserter, but worse: A TRAITOR. And, deserters have been SHOT for less…
Next, we will be paying for Bowe’s gender-reassignment surgery after which he will don a burka and plot against the United States in his adoptive mosque.
If that’s not reason enough to have a military coup to take out Obama I don’t know what is.
Obama has fired the people who would lead it.
Excellent point Bonnie. Joseph Stalin did the same with his top military leaders.
Yes, Obama shares a lot of “qualities” with Stalin and Hitler.
That’s okay. His freedom will not last long and he will get what’s coming to him on the outside. This is the typical Sunni Muslim Imam Obama administration’s way to handle things. Absolutely no accountability.
I like Allen West’s definitioin of Valerie Jarrett – modern-day Rasputin.
A traitor backing another traitor. No surprise there, really.
I’d like to put them both in a room for a while with all the wives, parents and children of those poor men who died looking for him.
It would not end well.
The Muslim in chief won’t ever punish muslim sympathizers he will only punish muslim critics. The muslim in chief won’t commend green beret man of honor Charles Martland but he will sing the praises of Ahmed the clock bomb hoaxer.
So true and ClockMed’s sister threatened to blow up the same school a few years earlier. I’m sure obama couldn’t wait to praise her as well.
Yes, obama is a traitor and an impostor, making no attempt to disguise his single minded aim—the rise of islam!
Even a child could see everything the man does is to aid islam, and he desperately wants to take out the last man standing in the way of his isis buddies in the Middle East–Assad; unfortunately he didn’t take Vladimir Putin into account!
This Bergdahl travesty is just one of the latest jaw dropping incidents in which obama really shows his arrogant loathing for the American public, and wants to “rub their noses in it!” Instead of having a traitor shot, he appears with his arm around Bergdahl’s mother, while the traitor’s father quotes from the Koran—and the American people take it?!
Maybe someone will define honor for him once he walks. If one of those six was my brother, I wouldn’t rest until he was dead. I’d be in such a rage that I wouldn’t care what happened to me.
And just look at those creatures that were set free and remember : Our traitor in the People’s House is threatening to withhold funding our military unless we turn all of them loose! Should do what they did in the Old West and erect a gallows with two nooses side by side. One for old barry and one for bergdahl! Two treasonous bastards for the price of one. Sell tickets like they used to and donate proceeds to the families of the six who died trying to save this coward’s ass!!
Looks like bama did a good job of purging the heroes from our military forces. If this doesn’t beat all…bergdahl & team bama all hanging (side-by-side) from the gallows is my vision right now (yes, the bitch of benghazi too)!! That will be true American justice.
A soldier that deserts his post should face the firing squad,end of story.So Bergdahl should be put up against the wall with The Traitor in chief OSAMA BIN OBAMA.America….Obama is destroying your country how can you accept this?
Time to write and time to demand justice for the 6 brave soldiers who died to find this traitor. odumbo is once again caught off base when he declared berghdahl to be a hero, entertaining the mutts’ muslum dressed parents at the W house.
used to be a death penalty for desertion. he is a traitor and deserves nothing less
tell me again that obama will NOT declare martial law
But this is BO’s New Army, do you remember
when recruiters were using this effete announcement
“THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER’S ARMY”?
Too Bad, I pray that this military was like my Father’s
Military. Those old soldiers knew how to handle a
traitor in their ranks.
Give him a koran, promote him to Imam or Shiek, build him a mosque and let him pray. and we’re done. !! all good in the US army, nothing to worry about here !#!
whats wrong with the current world ?? whats in the water that so many cant see any logic or truth, and see the vile world domination ideology of islam for what it is.
we’re all in a scary world zombie movie, with only as handful of us not affteced. the rest are zombiefied !!!
scary stuff indeed.
I the image of the dead and the free says it all. God this pisses me off.