Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl won’t serve time in prison for deserting his base in Afghanistan in 2009. He will be dishonorably discharged.
Friday, November 3, 2017 11:47 AM EDT
Sergeant Bergdahl was 23 and a private first class when he walked off his base in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009. Army investigators would later characterize his departure as a delusional effort to hike to a larger base and cause enough of a stir that he would get an audience with a senior officer to report what he felt were problems in his unit.
But the soldier, who is now 31, was captured by the Taliban within hours, and would spend five years as a prisoner, his treatment worsening after every attempt he made to escape.
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