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Bergdahl was born in 1986 in Sun Valley, Idaho. He is of Norwegian and Swedish ancestry. [2] [16] [17] [18] He has an older sister. [2] [19] [20] Both Bergdahl and his sister were home schooled by their mother in Hailey, Idaho. The family attended Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
The Taliban Five were five Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay and former high-ranking members of the Taliban government of Afghanistan who, after being held since 2002, indefinitely without charges, were exchanged in 2014 for United States Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
A federal judge has vacated Bowe Bergdahl’s dishonorable discharge from the US Army, roughly seven years after the former soldier was convicted of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy ...
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday voided a 2017 court-martial conviction against Bowe Bergdahl, an Army sergeant who walked off his post in 2009 only to be captured by the Taliban and spend five ...
In June 2009, US Army infantryman Bowe Bergdahl deserted his post with 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, and was subsequently captured by the Taliban. Over his five years of captivity, DEVGRU Red Squadron operators and Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment "spun up" operations to rescue him, but each resulted in a "dry hole."
Former sergeant was dishonourably discharged and forced to forfeit pay in 2017
On June 1, 2014, Fazl, and the other four Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were released in Qatar in exchange for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl who had been captured by the Taliban nearly five years previously. Bergdahl later pleaded guilty to the crime of desertion on October 16, 2017. [10]
The former U.S. Army soldier from Hailey, Idaho, pleaded guilty to desertion after he left his post and was captured in Afghanistan.