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RIP Master Sgt Mark Allen - Prayers for the family
1 posted on 10/13/2019 5:32:22 PM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

I can’t think for all the steam coming out of my ears.


2 posted on 10/13/2019 5:35:28 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: blueyon

I hope President Trump honors him.

He died needlessly for a scum sucking traitor


3 posted on 10/13/2019 5:35:28 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: blueyon
Why hasn't someone tracked that filthy punk down and...
4 posted on 10/13/2019 5:36:34 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowe_Bergdahl
[According to documents released by his defense team, Bergdahl was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder following an Army Sanity Board evaluation. On July 27, 2015, a memorandum from the sanity board stated “Though Sgt. Bergdahl did have a severe mental disease or defect at the time of the alleged criminal conduct, he was able to appreciate the nature and quality and wrongfulness of this conduct.”[117]

In September 2015, following earlier postponements,[118] an Article 32 hearing (similar to a preliminary hearing in the civilian system)[119] was held at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.[120][121][122] At the hearing, Dahl testified that he found no evidence suggesting that Bergdahl was “sympathetic to the Taliban” or intended to desert.[111][112] Dahl also testified that Bergdahl had “idealistic and unrealistic expectations” of people,[111][112] identifying with Ayn Rand’s character of John Galt.[111] Dahl testified that he had found no evidence that any soldiers had been killed while specifically engaged in the effort to retrieve Bergdahl.[111] Dahl also testified that imprisonment would be an “inappropriate” penalty for Bergdahl.[111][112]

Lieutenant Colonel Mark Visger presided over the hearing and made a recommendation on whether Bergdahl should be court-martialed.[120] In October 2015, Visger “recommended that the charges be referred to a special court-martial and that a punitive discharge and confinement would be inappropriate given all the circumstances.” Visger’s recommendation was reviewed by General Robert B. Abrams, the commander of United States Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the “convening authority” in Bergdahl’s case.[123][124]

In December 2015, Abrams rejected the recommendation and ordered that Bergdahl face a general court-martial on the two charges.[8][125] His trial was first set for February 2017.[126] Regarding these charges, Bergdahl had sought a pardon from President Obama,[127] which was not granted.[128]

In 2016, Bergdahl’s case was the focus of Season 2 of the podcast Serial.[129]

On President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, Bergdahl’s lawyers sought to use the president’s words to end the prosecution. Specifically, Trump had denounced Bergdahl during the presidential campaign as a “dirty rotten traitor.” The defense attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the desertion and endangerment charges against Bergdahl, saying it was now impossible for him to get a fair trial. They contended that the effect of Trump’s statements violates a prohibition on unlawful command influence, a legal concept in military justice.[130]

Colonel Jeffery Nance declined to dismiss the case in February 2017, then it was appealed and was denied by the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals in March. Bergdahl’s defense then filed a third motion, again asking to dismiss the case over the comments from Trump.[131] Bergdahl returned to court for a pre-trial hearing on May 5, 2017, where the judge said he intended to start jury selection on October 16, 2017.[132]

However, it was announced on August 21 that Bergdahl had rejected a trial by jury and chose instead a trial by military judge Colonel Nance.[133] On October 16, 2017, Bergdahl, via his attorney, pleaded guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.[134] His sentencing hearing was slated to take place on October 23.[135]

On October 23, the military judge heard arguments to renew a motion to dismiss the court-martial, citing recent comments by President Trump on October 16. Trump said that he couldn’t comment on the case, and added, “but I think people have heard my comments in the past.” Prosecutors claimed that Trump was merely trying to distance himself from his previous remarks about Bergdahl.[136] Sentencing testimony began on October 25.

On November 3, 2017, military judge Nance accepted Bergdahl’s guilty plea and sentenced him to be dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank, and fined $1,000 per month from his pay for ten months, with no prison time. The fine and reduction in rank were to take effect immediately, while the discharge was stayed pending automatic appeal.[137][138]

The judge did not give his reasons for the sentence, which was later reviewed by General Abrams. As the final sentence included a punitive (dishonorable) discharge, it was reviewed by the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals.[139]

After the sentencing, President Trump tweeted “The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military.”[140] In June 2018, General Abrams approved the sentence.[141] ]


5 posted on 10/13/2019 5:36:42 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: blueyon

Once again an editor is needed, 2nd paragraph is terrible.


6 posted on 10/13/2019 5:37:14 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: blueyon

My son was also out there looking for him.

He holds a special contempt for Bergdahl....


7 posted on 10/13/2019 5:41:06 PM PDT by MountainDad (A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others. Support your local militia.)
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To: blueyon

However Bergdahl and his supporters die will definitely get a thumbs up from me. We know who you are.


8 posted on 10/13/2019 5:41:14 PM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: blueyon

What a terrible waste of a good man’s life. The traitor, Bergdahl, lives on as a free man,after his parents were honored in the Rose Garden by Obama. This disgraceful incident is part of the rancid legacy of America’s Worst President.


9 posted on 10/13/2019 5:43:50 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: blueyon

Obama has blood on his hands..giving back 4 jihadists to get back that scum Bergdahl


13 posted on 10/13/2019 5:49:06 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: blueyon
RIP Master Sgt Mark Allen - Prayers for the family

Affirmative!

B.Bergdahl's outcome is a DISGRACE and an insult to the U.S. and its Military!

15 posted on 10/13/2019 5:52:13 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: blueyon

Any site for contributions?


17 posted on 10/13/2019 5:57:15 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: blueyon

Come to Georgia Mr President to attend the funeral. We always welcome you here and this would be a great thing for you to do to honor Mark and his family.


20 posted on 10/13/2019 6:11:16 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: blueyon

That’s blood on the hands of a certain former president.

Not Bush.


21 posted on 10/13/2019 6:13:46 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: blueyon

Tears.

And anger.

Prayers up.


24 posted on 10/13/2019 6:26:28 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: blueyon

His widow Shannon also deserves praise and appreciation.
It sounds like she used a Hoyer Lift to get him out of bed each day, and spent 90 minutes after that getting him presentable for the day. “In sickness and in health, for as long as you both shall live.”.


26 posted on 10/13/2019 6:45:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: blueyon

The Kenyanesian Usurper not only released terrorists to get him back, he then let the deserter off.

The founders were correct to exclude the children of foreign nationals from being President.


29 posted on 10/13/2019 7:34:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: blueyon

QUESTION: Can the military now charge Bergdahl with being an “accessory to the killing of Sgt. Allen” by his desertion necessitation a dangerous search for him?

Desertion by itself has all kinds of attachments to it re penalties.


34 posted on 10/13/2019 10:12:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: blueyon

yet Bergdahl walks and breathes...madness.


35 posted on 10/14/2019 12:41:32 AM PDT by Thunder 6
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https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2019/10/master-sgt-mark-allen-casualty-of-bowe.html “The American soldier President Obama portrayed as a heroic POW of the Taliban and traded five jailed Taliban leaders for his release now looks more like the man President Trump called a “no-good traitor” who should “have been executed.” NY Post.


36 posted on 10/14/2019 6:16:31 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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