Posted on 11/03/2017 5:25:34 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Attention, all troops peeved with your platoon sergeant, bored with your field rations, or who just want a little private time: It’s okay to desert your post in a combat zone. It’s fine for you to trigger the deaths and grave woundings of better men than you. A military judge just set a precedent: Deserters in wartime walk free.
You’ll probably get a book deal, too, and be portrayed as a hero in a big-budget film.
The US Army colonel and judge who decided Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s fate has some explaining to do. How is it that a confessed deserter, whose actions brought our Afghan campaign to a halt and led to the acknowledged wounding and alleged deaths of his comrades, can walk out of a military courtroom a free man? With not one day of prison time? How is that possible?
How can our armed forces maintain good order and discipline when the only penalty for desertion in wartime is a dishonorable discharge with a reduction in rank? The lowlifes who abandon their buddies in wartime don’t care what form of discharge they receive.
Apologists for Bergdahl insist that, as a captive of the Taliban for five years, he suffered enough. But what about those who died searching for him (as his comrades insist occurred)? What about the known wounded condemned to life sentences of pain and incapacity?
Please, Col. Nance, explain your decision to Bergdahl’s victims. Explain it to every soldier who served honorably.
As for abuse endured during his captivity, Bergdahl could have avoided it by remaining at his post. He wasn’t captured doing his duty. He quit and walked away.
The only military sin graver than desertion in a combat zone would be to turn one’s weapons against one’s fellow soldiers.
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Who’s going to hire a dishonorably discharged traitor? Nobody.
He’ll live in his own private hell, and if he has a conscience, he’ll think about the guys that died trying to find/rescue him.
He’ll off himself somewhere down the road.
this Nance guy should be not only drummed out of the Army but investigated.....
Celebrate Your Traitor Day.
That’s the Army’s message to the country. I take no solace from it.
I was thinking the same thing. I don’t believe he’s long for this world.
Justice was not served in this case. Bergdahl should have gotten at least the 12 years the prosecution was asking for. I’d have given him even more.
The traitorous left will take care of him...He’s a democrats hero...
So the real question is, who selected Nance for the case?
I’ll take Obama appointed/promoted General for $50, Alex.
Seriously, I don’t know, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Can anyone explain how he’s been ordered to forfeit pay when he’s being dishonorably discharged? What pay is there to forfeit if he’s not active duty?
Does he still think that ISIS treated him better?
I doubt that will happen. A POS like that will rationalize away all his failures and bad decisions. Like any liberal, he's too selfish to think of anyone except himself.
Is the sentence subject to review by a command authority?
They should have assembled a firing squad to shoot the phukin bastard!
Judge was brought up under His Arrogance’s reign and is attached to him at his zipper!
Yea his life is going to be crap....but he’s still alive.
No, he should be executed by hanging on the National Mall tomorrow at noon.
Yes, but only with an eye towards reducing the sentence. The sentence cannot be increased by anyone or anything. Further appeals, review and action by the Convening Authority, or requests for clemency to the Convening Authority can only act to reduce the punishment adjudged.
Who’s going to hire a dishonorably discharged traitor? Nobody.
Soros
The DNC
Obama
Muslim Brother Hood
The Taliban
Planed Parent hood
The Southern Poverty Law Center
The NFL
The Nancy Boy needs to be cashiered.
Amen to that FRiend.
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