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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says it will make an announcement Wednesday on the case against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Idaho soldier who left his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years before being released in a prisoner exchange.
U.S. Army Forces Command, based in North Carolina, said it will discuss the "next planned steps" in the case.
Gen. Mark Milley, head of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, has been reviewing the case and has a broad range of legal options. They include various degrees of desertion charges. A major consideration is whether military officials would be able to prove that Bergdahl had no intention of ever returning to his unit — a key element in the more serious desertion charges.
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