Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Arraigned In Military Court

An arraignment will be held Tuesday at Fort Bragg for Bergdahl, who disappeared in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years. Bergdahl reportedly deserted his unit in Afghanistan in 2009, and he was held captive by the Taliban for five years.

His decision to voluntarily leave the base has raised questions about what happened that night, and eventually led to Bergdahl being formally charged with “desertion and misbehavior before the enemy” earlier this year.

“The convening authority did not follow the advice of the hearing officer who heard the witnesses“, said Bergdahl’s lawyer, Eugene Fidell, noting he “had hoped the case would not go in this direction“.

The disgraced soldier wore an Army dress uniform with a dark blue jacket and trousers and had closely cropped hair.

Bergdahl was arraigned Tuesday during a short hearing.

“The accused wishes to defer for reflection”, said Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Rosenblatt, Bergdahl’s lawyer, at a brief hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The charges against Bergdahl had been announced by the Army in March before Visger reviewed the evidence as part of an Article 32 proceeding, which is similar to a grand jury. In the season premiere, Bergdahl said that he had “this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that, you know, I was the real thing”.

In the first episode of “Serial“, Bergdahl said he walked off his base to cause a crisis that would catch the attention of military brass. His freedom was part of a controversial swap approved by President Barack Obama in which five Taliban officials were released from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and moved to Qatar, where they are under strict supervision by the government there.

If the jury found Bergdahl guilty and elected to sentence him to more than 10 years in prison, it would require a three-fourths vote via secret ballot, the judge said. “You know, I could be, you know, what…”