Bowe Bergdahl to be arraigned Tuesday

Bergdahl was arraigned during a short hearing and deferred entering a plea.

Bergdahl’s next hearing is set for January 12.

Bergdahl made no decision on that question, either.

Bergdahl, speaking in a deep, but soft-spoken voice, told Fredrikson that he wishes to retain civilian military justice expert Eugene Fidell as his attorney for the remainder of the case along with Rosenblatt. “I was capable of being what I appeared to be”, Bergdahl said.

The proceedings come after Gen. Robert B. Abrams, head of the Army’s command forces at Fort Bragg, chose to go against the preliminary hearing results.

Army Colonel Jeffery Nance has been assigned as the judge in Bergdahl’s case.

But he’s also accused of “misbehavior before the enemy”, a rarely-invoked charge in which prosecutors only have to prove that Bergdahl ” endanger[ed] fellow soldiers when he ‘left without authority; and wrongfully caused search and recovery operations, ‘”according to Military Times. If convicted, he could get life in prison.

Bergdahl was the soldier who walked away from his post in Afghanistan back in 2009 and was subsequently captured by the Taliban.

Parents… President Barack Obama with Bowe Bergdahl’s parents, Jani Bergdahl, left, and Bob Bergdahl, at a White House press conference in 2014. He returned to the United States two weeks later.

Bergdahl hasn’t talked publicly about what happened, but over the past several months, he spoke extensively with screenwriter Mark Boal, who shared about 25 hours of the recorded interviews with Sarah Koenig for her popular podcast, “Serial”. And he wanted to prove himself as a real-life action hero, like someone out of a movie. You know, I could be, you know, what…

He hoped his disappearance would spur investigations into the “leadership failures” at his outpost, he said. In contrast, statistics show the U.S. Army prosecuted about 1,900 desertion cases between 2001 and the end of 2014.

He said he was spotted by six men armed with AK-47s and travelling on motorcycles. “I was trying to find a solution to the problem at hand”.

Troops were injured and killed looking for Bergdahl, Buetow said, and others in his platoon were in constant fear that Bergdahl would give up information – either voluntarily or via torture – that would endanger them. The release was framed as a successful completion of the administration’s vow to bring prisoners of war home, as Bergdahl was the last remaining US military captive in Afghanistan.