Yeah my fellow vets on social media have been venting most of the day. The DD is appropriate, but no jail time.... that just isn’t right.
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Isn’t it normal also to have retroactive demotions, and have to return their pay for the months or years at the higher rank?
This sentence is not even a slap on the wrist. Wonder if 0bama’s command influence created this situation.
Colonel Jeffery R. Nance of the US Army will go down in history as a blithering anti-American idiot.
The scumbag is a dirty rotten traiter. My opinion, he should face a firing squad.
Crazy!
I expected a lenient sentence- between 5 to 10 years. This is just crazy.
Col. Jeffery R. Nance.
Now there’s a guy who has his retirement papers in and a cushy job lined up at some libtard law school.
Inexplicable sentencing result. All you can do is run people like that out of the service.
On the plus side, a dishonorable discharge will pretty much ruin his life and future.
$10k fine and $300k in back pay. It’s a joke
Desertion only means a dishonorable discharge? That’s it? What’s it take to go to jail, murder the judge??
Generals Washington, Sherman, Lee, Grant, Jackson, and perhaps Patton would have had him executed before the sun went down on the day of prisoner exchange.
Leaks have disclosed that Bergdahl misconduct included ratting operational secrets on his fellow soldiers that caused a lot of problems and casualties for our guys in Afghanistan and also that there is evidence that Bergdahl took up arms with the Taliban and was caught fighting against American troops
This is a whitewash to protect the legacy of one Barack Obama. If they had given him jail time, it would have looked bad for Obama, so they softened it by not giving him jail time. During wartime, the second world war for example, he would have been executed. Today he walks. What a farce.
We’ll just put Nance in the Benedict Arnold Parthenon.
Command Sgt wolf says no soldiers died
Saw it on stars and stripes
On Sept. 4, 2009, Private 1st Class Matthew Martinek, 20, of DeKalb, Ill., was seriously wounded in Paktika province when Taliban forces attacked his vehicle with an improvided explosive device, a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire...Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss, Andrews and Murphrey, Martinek was part of the 4th BCT.
2nd Lieutenant Darryn Andrews, 34, of Dallas, Texas, died Sept. 4 in Paktika Province when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device and a rocket-propelled grenade. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker and Curtiss, Andrews was part of the 4th BCT.
Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss, 27, of Murray, Utah, died Aug. 26 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was shot while his unit was supporting Afghan security forces during an enemy attack. Like Bergdahl, Bowen and Walker, he was part of the 4th BCT.
Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey, 25, of Snyder, Texas, died Sept. 6 in Paktika province after being wounded by an IED. Like Bergdahl, Bowen, Walker, Curtiss and Andrews, Murphrey was part of the 4th BCT.
(The diversion of these men) and their units to the hunt for Bergdahl thinned the ranks of U.S. troops elsewhere in the region, contributing to several more American KIAs, U.S. soldiers who were there at the time believe.
Military justice can be swift and merciless, although that appears unlikely in this case. But the past cannot be erased, and it’s that legacy that gives the troops involved a markedly different view of Bergdahl and his rescue than that of most Americans sitting at home, paying scant attention to the nation’s only soldier missing in action in Afghanistan until Saturday.
The reason, for anyone who has been in combat, is pretty simple. Soldiers never forget. Civilians rarely remember. This civilian will never forget.
Military has gone soft .. there was a time when looking at the brig and what it represented, kept many a soldier from making these kind of serious errors in judgment. Facing a military justice used to be feared.
I’ve been wondering if he was told to leave camp and get himself “captured” in order to give Obama the excuse to trade the five bad guys for him.