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Originally Posted by AKBBY

Time served??!!

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Certainly a strange outcome

Originally Posted by Gargamel

This is probably the truth, and I'd guess the time in captivity was considered time served.

AGREED. However the military is not overly selective in filling its ranks and picks poorly in defence of the empire. The potential commander in chief-now the commander in chief- has/had no business making any statement whatsoever and that must have weighed in on the presiding judge's sentence

Republicans roundly criticized Obama, and Donald Trump went further while campaigning for president, repeatedly calling Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor" who deserved to be executed by firing squad or thrown out of a plane without a parachute. instant grounds for appeal

Additionally, by the sentence, Bergdahl's problem$ are now essentially his own and not the tax-payers to a certain extent:

army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's difficult childhood and washout from Coast Guard boot camp stoked serious psychiatric disorders that helped spur him to walk off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday.

Dr. Charles Morgan, called as a defense witness at Bergdahl's sentencing hearing, said the soldier was already suffering from a schizophrenia-like disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder when he disappeared in Afghanistan.
Morgan testified that kind of action was consistent with the schizotypal personality disorder diagnosis.
"I think he believes there are times if it's the morally right thing to do, you have to break the rules," he said. "There's not a thinking through of: 'Are there other ways to achieve this goal?'"

His own defense shrink asserts these conditions existed prior to his enlistment. Moreover five years in a Taliban cage with cruel treatment and (allegedly) numerous escape attempts requires a lot of Islamic guards who might have otherwise been free to attack forces elsewhere...

Since the defense began its sentencing arguments, Bergdahl has taken the stand to apologize to the troops who were wounded in the search for him. And two military agents who debriefed Bergdahl testified Tuesday about how much valuable intelligence he provided when he was returned in a prisoner swap.

A fair apolitical judgement imho: five years in a Taliban cage has got to equal Platypus's 10 more years at Leavenworth... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...101-story.htmlThe barrel-bottom scraping military recruiter and the C'in C' should perhaps be punished for this one.