General says Bergdahl doesn’t deserve jail [View all]
Source: Washington Post
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas
The Army general who carried out an investigation last year into the alleged desertion of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said he believes that a jail sentence would be “inappropriate,” despite the massive search that followed when Bergdahl walked away from his unit’s outpost in Afghanistan.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl testified here Friday that he found Bergdahl “unrealistically idealistic” about other people and remorseful for his actions.
In June 2009, Bergdahl left his platoon’s outpost, Observation Post Mest in Paktika province, with plans to run 19 miles to the larger Forward Operating Base Sharana, cause a disruption and get the attention of a general, Dahl said. Instead, he was captured by insurgents who held him for five years.
“I do not believe that there is a jail sentence at the end of this process,” Dahl said.
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