The Desertion Charge for Bowe Bergdahl Was Months in the Making
Nearly a year after he was brought home through a prisoner exchange, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will be court-martialed, a military official revealed Wednesday. The charges will be "desertion and avoiding military service" as well as "misbehavior before the enemy." An official U.S. military announcement will come later Wednesday. Last summer, when Bergdahl first returned to the United States, the chance that he might face such charges was already clear. Throughout a time of heated debate over the resources and compromises that had been necessary to bring him home, the Army promised to investigate what had happened. "Depending on the details, the facts of the case might support a charge of desertionone of the most serious crimes a soldier can commit," TIME's David von Drehle explained. And the details were bedeviling. As the story continued, Read the rest of the story here on TIME.com No Soldier Left Behind