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2017-07-16 Government

Military Judge Gives Bowe Bergdahl A Lot Of Bad News

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Posted by Pappy 2017-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Any court-martial panel Bergdahl draws will be composed of officers with combat tours.

RedState needs fact checkers. As an enlisted he is entitled to request that a portion of this board be composed of enlisted.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-16 07:23|| 2017-07-16 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 You missed the last sentence:

Bergdahl can demand that a third of his jury be composed of noncommissioned officers senior in rank to him–but he’d have to have a profoundly incompetent defense team for them to think that senior NCOs are going to be very sympathetic to his case.

Posted by Pappy 2017-07-16 08:18|| 2017-07-16 08:18|| Front Page Top

#3 I stand corrected. They clarified later, not in the sentence cited. No however, not a but in the cited sentence.

That portion of enlisted must include similar in rank. That means they all won't just be E8s and E7, but someone of comparative rank. Been there, seen it, done it. Probably less sympathetic than an O6 (at least in my experience), along the lines, he won't have my back.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-16 08:51|| 2017-07-16 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW, any finding will likely end up at the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Don't try to stack the board. It has a record of frowning on such tactics. Got to play strategically.

This is the court that has stalled all death penalty cases. Given that, on the battlefield which is why they exist, soldiers face the death penalty, it's hard to reconcile it being 'cruel and unusual'.

I was curious about who's the convening authority. It has to be in the chain of command of the accused. They elevated it to Army Forces Command which does away with the clutter of the event occurring in Afghanistan in a unit that rotates between theater and home station, switching operational commands in the process. That means the pool will likely be personnel at the location of FORSCOM, Fort Bragg.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-16 10:09|| 2017-07-16 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Possibly FORSCOM, possibly something in the D.C area.

Posted by Pappy 2017-07-16 12:51|| 2017-07-16 12:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm very surprised the Bergdahl issue has already gone this far. I would have thought it was dead due to the shady prisoner swap orchestrated by the man some call Soetoro. Perhaps more trial work and digging will produce additional information on that disgusting chapter.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-16 12:56|| 2017-07-16 12:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Is there still an MOS or ASI for "Hangman"?

Posted by DooDahMan 2017-07-16 13:33|| 2017-07-16 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 CorpseMan
'Mind like a steel trap' Rantburg impact award

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-16 13:34|| 2017-07-16 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Good one, Frank.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-16 13:38|| 2017-07-16 13:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Hehehe (@ Frank).

Posted by DooDahMan 2017-07-16 13:45|| 2017-07-16 13:45|| Front Page Top

#11 :-)

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-16 14:42|| 2017-07-16 14:42|| Front Page Top

#12 I would have thought it was dead due to the shady prisoner swap orchestrated by the man some call Soetoro.

It would have been dead, had the election turned out the way it was expected to...

Posted by Pappy 2017-07-16 15:54|| 2017-07-16 15:54|| Front Page Top

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