Interviews with local villagers have cast a disturbing story of U.S. troops outnumbered, outgunned and alone the night a force of nearly 200 enemy forces launched a well-coordinated attack using trucks, motorbikes and heavy weapons.
A military jury began deliberating Thursday whether a Marine Corps drill instructor is guilty of beating, stomping and choking new recruits, or whether accounts of his abuse against Muslim-Americans and other military hopefuls were overhyped by young troops.
A Marine Corps drill instructor was a “bully” who punched, choked and kicked recruits, focusing his abuse on three Muslim volunteers he derided as “terrorists,” a military prosecutor said at a court-martial Wednesday.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will be free of prison time, a judge ruled Friday. He will also be dishonorably discharged from the Army and reduced in rank to private.
A military judge on Thursday began deliberating the punishment for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after defense attorneys asked for no prison time while prosecutors sought more than a decade behind bars.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s difficult childhood and his 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.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was a “gold mine” of intelligence, helping the military better understand insurgents and how they imprison hostages, two agents testified Tuesday as defense attorneys sought to show the soldier’s contributions since he was returned in a prisoner swap.