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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who voluntarily left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 before being taken captive by the Taliban, is expected to plead guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior later this month. He will potentially face a dishonorable discharge from the Army, as well as up to five years for desertion, and anything […]
Attorneys for accused Army deserter, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Wednesday told a judge that they want to ask potential jurors in the court-martial case how they viewed President Trump and whether or not they voted for him. According to Stars and Stripes reports released on Wednesday, Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl’s lead attorney said, “the principal issue […]
The scheduled court-martial of SGT Bowe Bergdahl is slated to take place at Ft. Bragg, NC and will be the subject of intense media scrutiny. But the US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) has shelved the expect start of next week. While no new date for the trial has been set, a hearing is scheduled for […]
Airman returning to the skies: COLORADO SPRINGS — A dozen years after he was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, Master Sgt. Israel Del Toro was on the verge of completing a final, unbelievable stage of his comeback. After miraculously surviving third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body, Del Toro has returned […]
This article previously published on SOFREP 07.04.2014 The reason Bowe Bergdahl’s recovery has become such a controversy is because of a climate of distrust the Obama administration has cultivated in light of a multitude of previous scandals, the clear effort to portray the Bergdahl story as a success when it is clearly not, and the […]
An article filled with half-truths, exaggerations, and absurdity: Hundreds of young women on track to join ground-level Army units over the next year would lose their positions if the Trump administration reimposes a ban on women serving in front-line combat. I had no idea what I was going to write about this week. Until, that […]
This transcript offers just a glimpse of Bergdahl’s perspective and the factors that drove him to leave his post.
Bowe Bergdahl was never meant to join the Army, and in so doing, he ultimately created a trail of collateral damage that just may land him in prison for the foreseeable future. But how many more like him are there given the Army’s lacking psychological profile standards? The military entrance process, among other things, is […]
The juxtaposition of two American military men who could stand in the same courtroom in the coming months couldn’t be set in more stark relief. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faces a general court-martial for walking off of his base in eastern Afghanistan in 2009. Bergdahl spent five years in Taliban captivity, where he was tormented, before […]
It’s been a hell of a year. The News Roundup first started in March, so here’s a quick snapshot of what we’ve hit, by month, since then.
“In the old days, deserters were shot.”—Donald Trump On January 31st, 1945, with final review and subsequent approval by Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, one Private Edward Slovak was executed by firing squad for the crime of desertion in the face of the enemy. That is the only instance of execution of a deserter […]
Bowe Freaking Bergdahl: Washington (CNN) U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face a military court on charges of desertion and endangering fellow soldiers, the U.S. Army announced Monday. Gen. Robert Abrams, the commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, ordered the court-martial on Monday, breaking with the U.S. military officer overseeing Bergdahl’s preliminary hearing who recommended […]
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