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November 6, 2017

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Gets Dishonorable Discharge, No Prison Term
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In Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a military judge has released Army Sgt.
Bowe Bergdahl with a $10,000 fine and a dishonorable discharge-but no
prison time, in a case that could have seen the former Taliban captive
sentenced to life in prison. Bergdahl pleaded guilty this month to
charges of desertion and "misbehavior before the enemy," after he was
returned to the U.S. in 2014 in exchange for five prisoners held at
Guantánamo. He'd been held captive by the Taliban for five years after
he walked off his post in what an Army investigation found was an
attempt to reach another U.S. base to report on wrongdoing in his unit.


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