One day, a man considered desertion, the next he deserted.
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He faced up to life in prison for his desertion.
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"He was going to be shot for desertion," says Scully.
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Bowe Bergdahl escaped any jail time for desertion in Afghanistan.
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He faces up to life in prison for his desertion.
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Mark Visger, endorsed both that charge and the desertion charge.
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He pled guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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The desertion was not missed by operatives in South Carolina.
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Leaving it was difficult, and dangerous too — desertion is treason.
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He is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner of war now charged with desertion.
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Bergdahl had pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl has been charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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"Desertion and misbehavior before the enemy are extremely serious charges," Rep.
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Meanwhile, dissension among soldiers inspired the Confederate Army's staggering desertion rate.
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Bergdahl later pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bowe Bergdahl's guilty plea for desertion resulted in a dishonorable discharge.
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According to the Defense Ministry, two men were executed for desertion.
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Bowe Bergdahl has plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl faced up to five years in prison on the desertion charge.
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Bergdahl pleaded guilty last month to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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In 2017, Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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He pleaded guilty in October to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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His desertion charge, meanwhile, carries a maximum five-year sentence upon conviction.
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Bergdahl pleaded guilty October 16 to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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He pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in 2017.
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Bergdahl, 29, was charged last year with desertion and endangering U.S. troops.
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Does he know there are differences among treason, desertion and going AWOL?
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His armed forces have been degraded by incessant fighting, and debilitated by desertion.
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He has been declared AWOL and is now also wanted for military desertion.
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The Army charged him with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in 2015.
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Bowe Bergdahl for desertion, misbehavior before the enemy and endangering our own troops.
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The SDP's desertion, however, injects some uncertainty into the vote and its outcome.
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Torture after desertion Hours after Bergdahl deserted, he was captured by the Taliban.
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Bergdahl, 31, pleaded guilty last week to misbehavior before the enemy and desertion.
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He faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, endangering fellow soldiers.
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The island itself has an air of desertion but not of extreme despair.
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He was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in March 2015.
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Since then, the military has classified the attrition and desertion rates as secret.
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At his court-martial, he pleaded guilty to desertion and aiding the enemy.
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Bowe Bergdahl with desertion for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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His army -- fighting on multiple fronts amid desertion and exhaustion -- was losing ground.
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Between 2014 and July 2015, SOHR documented 143 executions of ISIS members for desertion.
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Desertion and illegally leaving the country come at a cost, she explained to me.
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A return home now included the risk of arrest by the military for desertion.
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Bergdahl faces a court-martial for charges of "misbehavior before the enemy" and desertion.
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They suggested that he could be prosecuted for desertion and for some lesser crimes.
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Bergdahl pleaded guilty last month to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Milley made the early decision to charge Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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ISIS is reportedly suffering from desertion, internal bloodletting, a shortage of funds and flagging morale.
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Bergdahl faced up to life in prison for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Capt.
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Bergdahl now faces a court martial on charges of desertion and endangering his fellow soldiers.
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Bowe Bergdahl — who pleaded guilty to charges of desertion — in exchange for five Taliban commanders.
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Newt's military desertion makes him a traitor and a fugitive vulnerable to execution if caught.
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Bergdahl, 29, is facing a court-martial, charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl had been facing desertion charges for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Bergdahl, 31, pleaded guilty last month to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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The 31-year-old pleaded guilty last month to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Stopping the Pfizer tax desertion should be a no-brainer for the President and Congress.
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Bergdahl pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Why are these crimes somehow less compelling, less appalling, than Polly's act of maternal desertion?
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Hughes was charged with desertion and is being held at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
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As well as unreasonable behaviour, marital breakdown can be demonstrated by evidence of adultery or desertion.
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Despite his trauma, he had to realize that desertion would jeopardize those attempting a rescue operation.
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A military judge ruling no time in jail after pleading guilty, he pled guilty to desertion.
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This desertion was a signal to many of a disastrous failure of leadership by Mr. Corbyn.
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He pleaded guilty on Monday to desertion and endangering the troops sent to search for him.
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He figured that my emotional pain from his desertion would be transmitted to my adoptive mother.
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Afghan security forces lost 250,262 members a month — less to the Taliban than to simple desertion.
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Lori Vallow, 46, was charged with two felony counts for desertion and nonsupport of dependent children.
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Bowe Bergdahl with desertion after he walked off his post and was captured by the Taliban.
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So now if you&aposre out there, they take this very seriously in the U.S. military desertion.
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"I started panicking," he told a military judge after giving himself up and being charged with desertion.
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Bowe Bergdahl on Monday pleaded guilty to misbehavior before the enemy and desertion, according to multiple reports.
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He said the district's police leaders had met and all vowed to take stern measures against desertion.
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But ... none of them measures the incalculable damage that desertion inflicts on a nation's soul and identity.
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Only one person has been executed for desertion in the United States since the Civil War — Pvt.
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Later he was accused of desertion, and when he came home he was put in military prison.
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In addition, former soldiers came forward to describe the circumstances of his capture, accusing him of desertion.
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He faced a possible sentence of up to life in prison for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bowe Bergdahl faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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There are even suggestions that soldiers are paid late to discourage desertion, which would mean abandoning back pay.
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He told Sergeant Bergdahl he was suspected of three crimes: being absent without leave, desertion, and fraudulent enlistment.
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He had faced up to life in prison after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Maybe treat himself to a movie, and bring back some groceries as a thin justification for his desertion.
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Bowe Bergdah and his alleged desertion from the U.S. Army, as well as his captivity by the Taliban.
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Ms. Hollingworth's first husband, Vandeleur Robinson, whom she married in 1936, divorced her for desertion 15 years later.
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Bergdahl is set to face a court-martial in February on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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The army was forced to turn out raw recruits simply to fill the gap caused by casualties and desertion.
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Bergdahl is facing a court-martial on charges of desertion for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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A sense of desertion underlies these pictures, the eternal afternoon aspect of homes awaiting owners who might never return.
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Yet Trump's victory was fueled in large part by the en masse desertion of these voters from the Democratic nominee.
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For the first time, she's talking about her father—or rather talking about the void left from her father's desertion.
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Mr. Jenkins, held in Japan after he arrived there in 2004, was subsequently tried for desertion in a military court.
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Michael Powell's 210 film "The Edge of the World" tells of the desertion of St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides.
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The Associated Press reported last week that Bergdahl will plead guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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The song "Desertion and the Arsonist's Match" is a song that came directly out of me thinking about that feeling.
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Bassist Johnny DeBlase (Zevious, Sabbath Assembly), Jamie Saft (who's played with Bad Brains), and Ches Smith all play on Desertion.
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Desertion sounds like you've been watching a lot of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, for which Neil Young privided the soundtrack.
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Bergdahl's court martial for charges of desertion and endangering fellow soldiers was previously proposed for December but Nance had scheduling concerns.
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In World War I the Germans executed 48 men for desertion; during World War II that figure rose to 30,000. 6.
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The soldier, who had pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, faced a maximum term of life in prison.
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Two-thirds of the personnel absences in the security forces are not down to injury, but instead desertion, U.S. officials say.
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Hughes Jr. is charged with desertion and is being held at Travis Air Force Base in California, the Associated Press reported.
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English divorce laws say a person cannot divorce without a spouse's consent, unless they can prove adultery, unreasonable behavior or desertion.
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Serial's second season explored the nebulous facts surrounding the possible desertion of US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy last week, 8 years after he abandoned his post in Afghanistan.
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The rest fell into the gray area in between, giving reasons related to poverty or issues like domestic violence or desertion.
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Robert Bowdrie "Bowe" Bergdahl leaves the Fort Bragg military courthouse Monday after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Its most poignant passage occurs when, after Nijinsky's desertion of Diaghilev, Massine, eighteen years old, arrives to take the dancer's place.
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She was among witnesses for the prosecution who testified to the impact of Bergdahl's desertion on soldiers sent to find him.
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Following Oh's desertion, fellow deserter Kang told CNN the soldier's flight would give hope to other military members hoping to flee.
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He is being charged with desertion and misbehavior in front of the enemy – essentially, endangering his unit – in a military trial.
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Bergdahl is now facing a court-martial, set to begin in August, on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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"I found out that he was executed by an illegal court-martial and wrongfully charged with desertion," Reno told me recently.
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In August, the police recruited 650 new officers, in the face of more than 23,300 lost to casualties, arrests or desertion.
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Vallow was flown from Hawaii, where she has been living for several months, after being arrested for child desertion and nonsupport.
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That was how Theresa May's premiership ended this week, wrecked by her blindness and secretive obstinacy, in loneliness, desertion and despair.
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Bowe Bergdahl pleading guilty to desertion for leaving his post in Afghanistan and endangering the soldiers who searched for him. 4.
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He told me how they were forced to watch public beheadings, which served as a stark warning for anyone considering desertion.
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Bowe Bergdahl is set to plead guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, The Associated Press reported Friday.
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The desertion charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and the misbehavior charge carries a possible life sentence.
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President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly pardoned soldiers sentenced to death for desertion, even though his generals warned it would undermine battlefield discipline.
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Make no mistake about it: in earlier times this desertion on a battlefield would have most likely resulted in a firing squad.
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In the wake of Brazil's desertion, Chile stepped in to organise next year's summit, which convention requires to happen in Latin America.
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After serving a token 30-day sentence for desertion, Jenkins moved with his family to Sado, Soga's rural hometown, late in 2004.
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His desertion charge carries a maximum sentence of five years, and misbehaving before the enemy could land him with life behind bars.
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Kelly enlists her friends on a quest to both prove her mom's innocence, and discredit the news sources reporting on her desertion.
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In the wake of Brazil's desertion, Chile stepped in to organise next year's summit, which convention dictates should happen in Latin America.
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These include adultery, desertion, "natural impotency, insanity or idiocy, and a wife's pregnancy by another person at the time of the marriage."
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Bowe Bergdahl told a military judge today he will plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, per the Associated Press.
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If he continues, it is because he hasn't the strength to capitulate, to suspend his desertion forward (the very definition of history).
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Bowe Bergdahl could spend the rest of his life behind bars after he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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At first, he was welcomed as a savior by a region bearing the brunt of the medical desertion of the French countryside.
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They say his troops' desertion of Mosul allowed militants to capture billions of dollars in weapons later used to attack the minority.
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Kenneth Dahl, believed that the most serious charge Sergeant Bergdahl should face was desertion, carrying a sentence of up to five years.
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Seven lost their lives -- executed for desertion or criminal activity, and dying from fatigue during the arduous training on a remote island.
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They have reportedly suffered more than 28,000 fatalities since 2015 as well as high desertion rates, and as a result remain overstretched.
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The 31-year-old sergeant faces up to life in confinement after pleading guilty last month to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Kennedy remains in custody on an unspecified amount of bail and is charged with negligent homicide, cruelty to a juvenile and child desertion.
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English law requires a spouse to prove unreasonable behavior, adultery, desertion or a separation of five years unless both parties agree to divorce.
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Jeffrey Michels, 64, was arrested on Thursday and charged with military desertion, according to a spokeswoman with the Seminole County, Florida, Sheriff's Office.
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And the suffering it caused wasn't limited to those who went into battle—the act of desertion carried its own heavy psychological penalties.
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Bowe Bergdahl could spend the rest of his life behind bars after he pleaded guilty Monday to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl is facing a court-martial for charges of desertion and misbehavior in front of the enemy for leaving his post in Afghanistan.
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Bergdahl and his case have become a political firebrand, and earlier this month he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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"I will present findings and I will address the offenses that we have talked about, you know, desertion, A.W.O.L., fraudulent enlistment," he said.
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Bergdahl was charged by the Army with "desertion and misbehavior before the enemy" for voluntarily walking off his base in Afghanistan in 2009.
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"Desertion and the Arsonist's Match" is a reference to a quote from a book about Detroit, a city I think about a lot.
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A lot of these were from potter's fields and criminals, or soldiers that had either succumbed to disease or were killed for desertion.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, has won access to hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information.
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Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 22017 years after he pleaded guilty to desertion for leaving his post in Afghanistan back in 2009.
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Officials in both countries said the pace of desertion has sped up in recent months as political and economic turmoil in Venezuela has worsened.
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A Syrian military source said desertion and draft-dodging were a "phenomenon found in all armies" and that Syria was not a special case.
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Bowe Bergdahl plan to ask for his desertion case to be tossed out once President-elect Donald Trump takes over as commander in chief.
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She said she's spent seven or eight years tracing his story and convincing the US Army to expunge the desertion charge from his record.
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He was ordered to be dishonorably discharged from the Army by a military judge, but received no prison time for desertion or endangering troops.
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She's facing multiple charges, including two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of children, according to a criminal complaint filed with an Idaho court.
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But now, a year on, Saudi Arabia is extending its arm formally back in to Washington, DC, for the first time since that desertion.
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You've had solo records under your own name that explored noise, metal, drone, and jazz and now with Desertion, you're doing a countryish thing.
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The desertion of traditional center-left parties was a boon for the so called "Dutch Trudeau" Jesse Klaver, whose Groenlinks party picked up 12 seats.
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During the Civil War, there was enough space to house Union prisoners, mostly for desertion, and four men implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Gabriel told him that she was going on trial for desertion, but I don't recall hearing more until this episode — tell me if I'm wrong.
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But between the protests and the cardinal's rare foray into politics, there's reason to think at least some of the desertion came from moral grounds.
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While there has not so far been a mass desertion from Trump, more than a dozen GOP senators expressed concern over his firing of Comey.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty to desertion and endangering other troops by walking away from his base in Afghanistan and getting captured by the Taliban.
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A military judge ruled in 2017 that Bergdahl would not serve any time in prison after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Lori Vallow, 46, was arrested on multiple charges, including on suspicion of two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, Kauai police said.
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In November, the Republic's Prime Minister and cabinet fled, a desertion that, instead of demoralizing the city, unleashed an anarchist, populist enthusiasm for its defense.
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Noisey: You've played in many different bands and in solo mode, all very stylistically different, and Desertion is yet another departure sound-wise for you.
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Kenneth Watson was accused of cruelty and child desertion after he allegedly tossed his children from a car as one clung onto the bumper, police said.
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Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban and spent five years suffering harsh conditions in captivity, has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl is facing a court martial for charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in June 2009.
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In a decree issued on his social media feeds, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the amnesty covered all punishments for desertion inside or outside Syria.
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While the amnesty covers desertion, it does not cover fighting against the government or joining the rebels, who are regarded by the Syrian government as terrorists.
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The Kurdish YPG militia, the target of Turkey's onslaught into northern Syria, controls their home city of Qamishli, and might detain him for desertion, Akram explained.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who has been charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, has issued a stay of proceedings, essentially putting the court martial on hold.
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Bergdahl faces up to five years in prison for the desertion charge and up to life in prison for the charge of misbehavior before the enemy.
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He faces up to five years in prison for the desertion charge and up to life in prison for the charge of misbehavior before the enemy.
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But it wasn't necessarily desertion: Dahl testified in court that jailing Bergdahl would be "inappropriate," as he did not plan to abandon the US military entirely.
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Lori Vallow, 46, faces multiple charges, including two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of children, according to a criminal complaint filed with an Idaho court.
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Bowe Bergdahl, an American who walked off his base in Afghanistan, setting off a military manhunt and political furor, pleaded guilty today to desertion and misbehavior.
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On Monday, with Mr. Trump now commander in chief, Sergeant Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and to endangering the American troops sent to search for him.
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His sentence for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in Afghanistan in 2009, which was handed down Friday, included a dishonorable discharge and no jail time.
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Mr. Jenkins, then 64, was court-martialed by the Army for desertion, demoted to private and given a dishonorable discharge and a 30-day jail sentence.
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An Army soldier who was hailed as a hero on social media after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has been arrested on desertion allegations.
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"The Afghan security forces are engaged in widespread desertion with large numbers of their officers going AWOL despite billions of dollars in US assistance," he told me.
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Uproar in Washington will meanwhile be exacerbated by almost uniform outrage over Trump's Syria withdrawal and effective desertion of America's Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS.
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Robert B. Abrams, head of Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., ordered that Sergeant Bergdahl face a court martial on charges of desertion and endangering troops.
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Prior to that, Arsenal had held some measure of control over proceedings, but that double desertion marked the start of a swirling talent drain at the club.
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Bergdahl faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy for walking off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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In February an American intelligence report estimated that the number of IS fighters in Iraq and Syria had fallen by some 20%, due to death and desertion.
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Sergeant Bergdahl faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, yet two senior military officers conducting separate, impartial investigations into his case have recommended no imprisonment.
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And so the security of the chosen family, which lives outside the conventions of heteronormative taxonomy, can be an antidote to this epidemic of stigma and desertion.
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The desertion charge carries a potential five-year sentence, and the charge of endangering troops — formally known as misbehavior before the enemy — carries a potential life sentence.
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The Afghan military and police, on the other hand, are said to have up to 350,000 members, though they are plagued with heavy casualties, attrition and desertion.
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For Nardi, it's important to directly document the desertion of Italy's "great empty spaces," from St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to the Duomo Cathedral in Milan.
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Those blurred lines were a big problem for Saigon; family obligations were one of the main reasons for desertion from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
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Doomsday mom Lori Vallow was arrested in Hawaii on Thursday for multiple charges including two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, Fox News reported.
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It requested a pre-emptive pardon that would avert Sergeant Bergdahl's court-martial trial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy that endangered fellow soldiers.
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And the horribly high casualty rate, coupled with a continuing but hushed problem with desertion, creates a constant struggle to train wave after wave of new recruits.
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But according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Valdet was arrested for desertion and banged up in a jail in Manbej, a city northeast of Aleppo.
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Kheder Khaddour of the Carnegie Middle East Center said the number serving in the army is likely to have shrunk considerably through defections, deaths, desertion and draft-dodging.
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Bergdahl is set to face a court-martial in February on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Public executions were being carried out for "treason and collaboration" with Iraqi forces trying to recapture the city, or for the use of banned mobile phones or desertion.
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Amir Toumaj, a researcher examining Iranian domestic policies for the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, suspects the new citizenship law may serve to discourage desertion from the brigade.
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Bergdahl is set to face a court martial in April on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Washington (CNN)The US Army will conduct a court-martial hearing in the desertion case of Bowe Bergdahl, who is expected to enter a plea before the court.
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Milley made the decision to charge Bergdahl in 2015 with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, for which Bergdahl ultimately received a dishonorable discharge but avoided prison time.
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Cohen spoke to Mattis on Wednesday night and said he was distraught over Trump's Syria order, which he viewed as a desertion of America's allies, especially the Kurds.
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Bergdahl is set to face a court-martial in August on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Bergdahl is set to face a court-martial in April on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge, but avoided prison time for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday.
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Sergeant Bergdahl is charged with desertion and misbehavior in front of the enemy; a guilty verdict could result in a sentence anywhere from no jail time to life.
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"Desertion," ignored by reviewers when it was published, won a major award in Taiwan, and a leading critic in Beijing counted it among China's most important philosophical novels.
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Sergeant Bergdahl faces charges of desertion, which carries a potential five-year sentence, and endangering the troops sent to search for him, which carries a potential life sentence.
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Lowell's desertion of Hardwick was for a while masked by his deceptions, and by the simple bewilderment engendered, in those days, by transatlantic letters crossing in the mail.
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Andrew Jackson emerges as a model of making do with less, managing the nearly impossible task of securing territorial sovereignty while commanding a ragtag volunteer army prone to desertion.
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Kenneth Watson, 57, was arrested and booked into the Orleans Justice Center on "three counts of child desertion and four of cruelty to a child," the Times-Picayune reported.
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Bergdahl, who is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, faces a court-martial and the possibility of life in prison — a move that investigating officer Maj. Gen.
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Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, told the judge Monday that he didn&apost mean to cause harm when he walked off his post.
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Nicolás said that his own desertion, at the age of 18, was aided by the knowledge his position of responsibility had given him about his location in the jungle.
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They amount "to a desertion of victims of war and heinous persecution, who have done everything asked of them as they prepare to arrive to the US," he said.
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Shamdasani said the United Nations continued to receive reports of mass killings by ISIS, including 50 of its own militants Monday at Mosul's Ghazlani military base for alleged desertion.
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A military judge will soon decide his punishment for desertion and endangering the troops who searched for him after he walked off his base in Afghanistan in June 2009.
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To solve the problem of rampant desertion she proposed the creation of all-women battalions that "would shame the men into continuing the fight," Carolyn Harris wrote on Smithsonian.
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She faces charges that include two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, resisting or obstructing officers, contempt of court and criminal solicitation to commit a crime.
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Army Colonel Jeffery Nance could recommend up to life in confinement for the 31-year-old sergeant, who pleaded guilty last month to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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More than 170 soldiers were detained for treason, rebellion and desertion in early 2018, compared with a total of 196 for all of 2017, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
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SHREVEPORT, La. – Authorities in Louisiana say a couple was arrested on child desertion charges for leaving young children in a car while they got their marriage license at a courthouse.
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That place's sound of hammers is dull, that place's sound of metal is staccato; like a copper pine whipping the hard wind, I've fallen in love, and can't bear desertion.
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Understrength Afghan security forces, struggling with heavy casualties and high desertion rates and short of air power, transport, and logistical support, have struggled in their first year fighting largely alone.
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Understrength Afghan security forces, struggling with heavy casualties and high desertion rates and short of air power, transport and logistical support, have struggled in their first year fighting largely alone.
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Now, Bergdahl is expected to plead guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, after years of speculation surrounding the circumstances of his disappearance, the Associated Press reports.
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C.S. Lewis wrote, "animal pain is … perpetuated by man's desertion of his post," and it's commonly understood that the way we treat animals is a test of our moral compass.
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Bergdahl, 30, is facing a court-martial with a potential life sentence on charges of desertion and endangerment of U.S. troops after he walked away from his post in Afghanistan.
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In March 2015, he was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering U.S. troops, with the latter offense carrying a sentence of up to life in prison.
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Instead of desertion, we should take on the more difficult task of renewing the European People's Party, and helping it to find its way back to its Christian democratic roots.
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Bergdahl faces charges of desertion and endangering fellow soldiers after he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in June 2009 and was held in captivity by the Taliban until May 2014.
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Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge but avoided prison time for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after he abandoned his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday.
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Bowe Bergdahl gets dishonorable discharge, no jail time The 31-year-old Army sergeant pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and had faced up to life in prison.
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After Crow publicly endorsed Jeb, the candidate tweeted a picture of his new gun, instead of putting his PR team to work, alerting the media of the latest Tea Party desertion.
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In March last year, he was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering U.S. troops, with the latter offense carrying a sentence of up to life in prison.
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Bergdahl is charged with desertion and endangering fellow soldiers after he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in June 2009 and was held in captivity by the Taliban until May 2014.
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"China's serial acts of suppression against Taiwan in the diplomatic sphere clearly show their unease and lack of self-confidence," said President Tsai in her statement on Burkina Faso's diplomatic desertion.
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He mentioned a monument in central England called "Shot at Dawn," dedicated to British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed by a firing squad after being convicted of cowardice or desertion.
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Desertion is an extreme measure, and it's easy to condemn those who resisted in that manner, to claim they were cowards or fell down on their duties to their fellow soldiers.
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Lori Vallow, 46, was arrested last week and faces multiple charges, including two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of children, according to a criminal complaint filed in an Idaho court.
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Bergdahl was spared prison time after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior charges, but Obama did not grant a request to issue him a pardon to spare him a court martial.
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In al-Ukeirshi, Islamic State killed scores of its own forces execution-style in 2015 for desertion or on accusations of treachery, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Hazelbower was later convicted by a military judge of child rape, possession of child pornography, sexual abuse of a child, desertion and other charges, and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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For his newest solo project, Millevoi dialed down his usual firestorm of proggy notes and upped the epic Neil Young-influenced guitar solo ante on the apocalyptic desert blues of Desertion.
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Given his past in Russia's notoriously tight-lipped security services, it was particularly treasonous of him to open his mouth, while the sheer symbolism of his desertion gave his proclamations eminence.
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Trump said US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held as a prisoner of war for years in Afghanistan, should be shot for desertion after he walked off his base in 2009.
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Top U.S. general in Afghanistan: 2016 'possibly worse than 2015' Deserting to the Taliban Death is not the only reason the Afghan army is losing troops: Desertion is rife within the ranks.
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One relationship led to me having to admit to fucking a military-owned tank as my alibi for desertion from the Army, which lead to some interesting Google searches once I finished.
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Now on administrative duty at an Army base in San Antonio, he has been ordered to a court-martial in August at Fort Bragg, N.C., on charges of desertion and endangering troops.
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Vallow was arrested in Hawaii in in February and faces multiple charges, including two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of children, according to a criminal complaint filed in an Idaho court.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who is accused of desertion during his posting in Afghanistan in 2009, has chosen to have a trial by judge, rather than a military jury, according to a court filing.
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And Bowe Bergdahl, an Army sergeant who walked off his base in Afghanistan and was convicted of desertion but received no jail time, was cited by Mr. Trump to defend his actions.
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Taliban successes on the battlefield have exposed the defensive limits of Afghanistan's NATO-trained armed forces, which are supposed to number 350,000 personnel but which have been heavily depleted by casualties and desertion.
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But these two dozen have hung on, choosing to battle for their sanctuary through the courts, knowing that a return to the US would almost certainly result in a military trial for desertion.
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The fear of conscription, and potential punishment for ducking it or for desertion, is frequently cited by aid groups as one of the main reasons refugees give for not wanting to return home.
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Bergdahl, who spent five years as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan after walking off his post in 2009, faces a court-martial on charges of desertion and endangerment of U.S. troops.
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That Britain took until 2006 to pardon those World War I soldiers executed for cowardice, desertion and insubordination — and that our own military court martialed Bowe Bergdahl last year — makes that reminder timely.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty to desertion and endangering fellow troops by walking away from his post in Afghanistan, where he was later captured and held prisoner by the Taliban for five years.
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Insider attacks have been a major problem among security forces struggling with low morale and high desertion rates, and there have been repeated instances of police and soldiers going over to the Taliban.
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Racial tensions were particularly high in the Army, where a vast majority of draftees were being sent, and where evasion, desertion and insubordination rates among black G.I.s exploded in the war's later years.
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He received a dishonorable discharge from the US Army and his rank was reduced to private, but he avoided prison time for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan.
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On the campaign trail, Trump frequently ridicules America's negotiating team for releasing five Taliban prisoners in order to retrieve Bergdahl, who is facing court-martial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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The sergeant's chief defense counsel, Eugene R. Fidell, asked a military court to dismiss the desertion and endangerment charges against Sergeant Bergdahl, saying it was now impossible for him to get a fair trial.
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But the provincial police chief has rejected that claim, saying the reason for the officers' desertion was that the post's commander had been fired recently over complaints from local residents that he had mistreated them.
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the US Army soldier who disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and ended up captured by the Taliban, pleaded guilty to charges of desertion and criminal misbehavior on Monday morning.
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After a lengthy trial, in which Bergdahl's attorneys attempted to argue that he could not fairly be held responsible for the three men's injuries, he finally pleaded guilty to both the misbehavior and desertion charges.
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But in March 2015, the Army raised the stakes, accusing him not only of desertion but also of misbehavior before the enemy, an ancient but rarely charged crime punishable by up to life in prison.
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The first of the three cases, the Army case, was cited in some back-and-forth over whether Sergeant Bergdahl was unfairly hit with two charges, desertion and misbehavior, for one act, leaving his post.
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But already, anguished American military and national security officials are sounding alarms that clearing the way for Turkey to bomb the Kurds could have long-term repercussions, just as the desertion of allies did then.
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Last Monday, Bergdahl — who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was then captured and held by the Taliban for five years — pleaded guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Bergdahl, who could spend the rest of his life in prison, is facing the court martial for charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in June 2009.
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A Florida man is facing a desertion charge after he was found allegedly living under another name more than 40 years after he vanished from his post at a North Dakota Air Force base, PEOPLE confirms.
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In 2015, Trump tweeted that Bergdahl "should face the death penalty for desertion," and later during the 2016 election said he should be executed via firing squad, or thrown out of a plane without a parachute.
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Bergdahl, who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban until a controversial 2014 prisoner swap, pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Sergeant Bergdahl, 30, is scheduled to face court-martial next year on charges of desertion, which carries a potential five-year sentence, and endangering troops sent to search for him, which carries a potential life sentence.
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Bowe Bergdahl – hailed by Susan Rice in 85033 as "a young man…who served with honor and distinction," charged in 2015 with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and facing a General Court Martial in 2016.
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Taken together, the weapons were part of a vast and sometimes minimally supervised flow of arms from a superpower to armies and militias often compromised by poor training, desertion, corruption and patterns of human rights abuses.
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More ominous for the G.O.P. is that the desertion of educated whites following Mr. Trump's 2016 win could establish a new Democratic coalition in future elections, one that would certainly return to the polls in 2020.
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Harnessing the visual languages of myth, desertion, and apocalypse, they speak to environmental crises and strongholds of power; to the plight of people forced to flee regions of unrest and the lonely aftermath of their survival.
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Sergeant Bergdahl, 30, faces a court-martial as soon as April on charges of desertion, which carries a potential five-year sentence, and endangering troops sent to search for him, which carries a potential life sentence.
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Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the infamous U.S. soldier who wandered away from his base during combat missions in Afghanistan in 2009 and ended up in Taliban hands, pled guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy last week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who is charged with desertion for walking away from his combat post in Afghanistan in 2009, has asked President Barack Obama for a pardon, the White House said on Saturday.
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What started as a family history quickly turned into a history of families — the five that shaped the plot and the house from the time of the kaiser to its desertion in 2003 in a reunited Germany.
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Perhaps it's the subject: Bergdahl's alleged desertion, while riddled with questions that have yet to be answered, is politically contentious and not as juicy a tale as an unsolved (depending on how you look at it) murder.
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She has been accused of desertion, of acting improperly for an Afghan woman, and she and her family have received hundreds of death threats — some from anonymous trolls, some even from members of her own extended family.
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And there are rising concerns that the overreporting of troop and police strength, allowing commanders to line their pockets with pay for nonexistent "ghost" soldiers, has partly obscured a deep problem with high attrition and desertion rates.
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They are also on the offensive, and battlefield successes have exposed the defensive limits of Afghanistan's NATO-trained armed forces which are supposed to number 350,000 personnel but which have been heavily depleted by casualties and desertion.
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Sergeant Bergdahl was being held at the time by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and would later be released in 2014 in a prisoner swap engineered by the Obama administration; he is now facing a court-martial for desertion.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) - Lawyers in the military desertion case against U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl argued on Tuesday about access to as many as 300,000 pages of classified documents that could be introduced in his court-martial.
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In recent years, the Odeon, mellowed in middle age, had been a favored setting for the sort of celebrity interviews Ms. Bell and her cohort assign, its dark corners and relative desertion offering privacy as well as pedigree.
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By honoring Bergdahl in 2015, despite a full 2009 Army report indicating his desertion from duty, President Obama intentionally misled the American public and has contributed to the cynical belief you cannot trust comments emanating from the White House.
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REUTERS/Hannah McKay At least 123 members of Venezuela's armed forces have been detained since anti-government unrest began in April on charges ranging from treason and rebellion to theft and desertion, according to military documents seen by Reuters.
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Documents reviewed by Reuters showed the number of new detentions of soldiers for treason, rebellion and desertion rose to 172 in the first four months of 2018, up three-and-a-half times from the same period of 2017.
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Bergdahl, 29, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and became a Taliban prisoner for five years, is facing a court-martial with a potential life sentence on charges of desertion and endangerment of U.S. troops.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his base in eastern Afghanistan in 2009, setting off a huge military manhunt and a political furor, pleaded guilty on Monday to desertion and to endangering the American troops sent to search for him.
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Last month, Bowe Bergdahl finally pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, and during the last week of October, I drove to Fort Bragg, N.C., for his sentencing hearings, to repay the Bergdahls' gesture in a way.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has made "appalling" comments about Bowe Bergdahl and may be called as a witness in the Army sergeant's court-martial on a desertion charge, one of Bergdahl's lawyers said on Friday.
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Documents recently reviewed by Reuters showed the number of new detentions of soldiers for treason, rebellion and desertion rose to 172 in the first four months of 2018, up 3-1/2 times over the same period last year.
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Bergdahl, who faces up to life in prison for endangering his comrades after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, told the judge he didn&apost mean to cause harm when he walked off his post in 2009.
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Scores of soldiers have been detained on accusations of conspiring against Maduro or of desertion, as they too sometimes struggle to eat three square meals a day amid the worst economic crisis in the country's history and a severe food shortage.
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Bergdahl stands charged with one count of desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty, aka Article 85, and one count of misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place, aka Article 99.
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Internal military documents reviewed by Reuters showed that the number of soldiers detained for treason, rebellion and desertion rose to 172 in the first four months of the year, up three-and-a-half times on the same period of 2017.
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" (The ARVN was South Vietnam's Army.) Mr. Duncan said it had been common knowledge that draft-dodging and desertion rates among South Vietnamese troops were "staggering," and that Vietcong guerrillas attacked American machine-gun positions "across open terrain with terrible losses.
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Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN)Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge from the US Army, but will avoid prison time for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday.
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Finn—in the middle of the second Star Wars movie he appears in, possessing almost no defining traits besides cowardice—tries to run away from the good guys' ship and is arrested for desertion by an annoying character named Rose.
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At the end of the interview, Dahl mentioned desertion, AWOL and fraudulent enlistment offenses to Bergdahl but made no mention of the more serious charge of endangering U.S. troops, which carries up to a life sentence, according to the transcript.
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Bowe Bergdahl has yet to tickle the collective minds of America like Hae Min Lee's murder or all that recent Steven Avery hubbub, this season is still a deep and complex look at the Afghanistan War and Bergdahl's alleged desertion.
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Not only did more people vote in the repeat election on Sunday, but they gave the opposition candidate the kind of endorsement that indicated a desertion from the governing Justice and Development Party, the A.K.P., and even from Mr. Erdogan himself.
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Lori Vallow, 46, is facing two counts of felony desertion of a child and misdemeanor charges of resisting and obstructing officers, solicitation of a crime and contempt, a statement from the Madison County, Idaho, Prosecuting Attorney said in a statement.
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Mr. Trump's decision, announced late Sunday, has been sharply criticized by politicians of both political parties in the United States as a desertion of the Kurdish-led forces — the most reliable American partners in fighting Islamic State militants in Syria.
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Olson is sensitive to the traumas of the deposed in having to decide whether to stay as hostages in the hope of sparing their populations the torments of Nazi rule or risk the charge of desertion by fleeing to London.
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With some 1,000 or so generals reportedly in Venezuela's military, there have not been many other signs of mass desertion in the upper ranks so far, according to CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who was recently inside Venezuela.
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Why it matters: The Hailey, Idaho, native pleaded guilty to misbehavior before the enemy and desertion; the first charge could have resulted in a maximum sentence of life in prison, while the latter could have resulted in a five-year maximum sentence.
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The second season, the sixth episode of which was released this week, is interrogating the unfolding case of Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier imprisoned by the Taliban for five years and now facing a court-martial for desertion and, possibly, a life sentence.
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Internal military documents reviewed by Reuters in 2018 showed that the number of soldiers detained for treason, rebellion and desertion rose to 172 in the first four months of that year, up three-and-a-half times on the same period of 2017.
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The two planned to elope, but their plan was betrayed; the Swedish count was killed, and Sophia Dorothea, at 28, was divorced by her philandering husband, found guilty of "malicious desertion," deprived of her children and imprisoned in a castle in nearby Ahlden.
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Hazm was soon overpowered by Jabhat al-Nusra, yielding its American-supplied weapons to the Qaeda affiliate — a process resembling what has played out repeatedly since 2001 in Afghanistan and Iraq, where many American partners have been bedeviled by desertion and battlefield defeat.
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It's easier still to point to wars of more moral clarity — the fight against Nazi and Japanese imperialism in World War II, the destruction of slavery in the Civil War — and ask what conceivable moral point resistance, especially desertion, would have served.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was an efficient soldier who at times seemed conflicted about his unit's mission in Afghanistan before walking off his post in June 2009 in an act of desertion, his former squad leader testified on Tuesday.
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But any attempts to weed out extremism have been met with rank desertion from many Trump supporters to more extreme subreddit camps — an interesting prognosticator of what could happen if Trump's real-life campaign should start to woo moderates and tone down inflammatory language.
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CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Arrests for rebellion and desertion are rising sharply in Venezuela's armed forces, a mainstay of President Nicolas Maduro's Socialist government, amid discontent within the ranks at food shortages and dwindling salaries, according to documents and interviews with army personnel.
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Jeremy, a teenager, stung by his father's desertion and angry that he and his mother must move out of their home, times his masturbation sessions so that when Nina and her clients open the door to his bedroom, they are treated to a surprise.
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Sign up here for more analysis of US politics for global readers Baghdadi's death could not have come at a better time, offering Republicans rare good news to rally around, amid devastating revelations from the impeachment inquiry and fury over Trump's desertion of the Syrian Kurds.
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Following a change at the top of the interior ministry last year, officials say 6,452 police outposts and checkpoints all over Afghanistan are being assessed as part of efforts to reduce losses and cut the rate of desertion by police who feel abandoned by their commanders.
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"There would be a denuclearization roadmap coming out of the summit with Trump, and it would be burdensome for Kim to have hawks who could be agitated by any desertion of the nuclear program," said Cheong Seong-Chang, a senior fellow at South Korea's Sejong Institute.
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"But still, I suffered from enough cold, hunger, beatings and mental torture to frequently make me wish I was dead," he said in the 2008 book "The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea," written with the journalist Jim Frederick.
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Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his Army base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for five years, received no prison time for desertion or endangering troops, but was ordered by a military judge on Friday to be dishonorably discharged from the Army.
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Mr. Trump ought to actually follow through on his rhetoric of ending endless war, writes Mr. Jenkins: His desertion of the Kurds and his license to Turkey to invade Syria must rank high in the annals of diplomatic treachery — but for realpolitik they are hard to fault.
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I'm dwelling on that final image because it's such a pitch-perfect coda to this series, but there are a handful of scenes in "START" that made me break out in a cold sweat, chief among them Stan's face-off with Philip in the garage and Paige's desertion.
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In the second season, the Serial team partnered with Mark Boal's Page One Media to tell the story of Bowe Bergdahl, an Army soldier who was held captive by the Taliban and later pleaded guilty before a military judge to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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Military prosecutors alleged that Bergdahl committed the crime of desertion — meaning abandoning his post with no intention of returning — and something called "misbehavior before the enemy," which means putting soldiers at unnecessary risk by forcing them to search for him in hostile territory in the weeks after his disappearance.
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If a soldier were to calculate his personal value to the campaign that his army is engaged in, he could easily conclude that the cost of showing up at the front isn't worth it, even if he factors in the chance of being caught and punished for desertion.
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The fresh-faced, impoverished Afghan recruits killed and maimed in the Taliban's sneak attack here on Friday, some of them just teenagers, are the latest targets of the insurgent group's campaign to subvert and demoralize the armed forces, already struggling with corruption, desertion and mistrust between soldiers and officers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years after walking off his post in Afghanistan, is expected to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, the Associated Press reported on Friday, citing two people with knowledge of the case.
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"The Circus Animals' Desertion" and "Politics," both written while he was in his 70s, are some of the most memorable poems in the language: Now that my ladder's gone / I must lie down where all the ladders start / In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart … Top that, young bastards.
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Under English and Welsh law (it differs in Scotland and Northern Ireland), there are five grounds for divorce: adultery, unreasonable behavior, desertion, if both partners have lived apart for more than two years (in the case of a mutually agreed divorce), and if both have lived apart for more than five years (if the divorce is contested).
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DiCamillo, a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the author of the Newbery Honor book "Because of Winn-Dixie" as well as two Newbery Medal winners, "The Tale of Despereaux" and "Flora and Ulysses," has returned to her Florida roots and to the careful handling of such thorny issues as loneliness and parental desertion.
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Despite the warnings and widespread desertion of the party by lifelong conservatives, the current Republican Party has continued to abdicate its authority to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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"I can only hope the four million Puerto Ricans currently living on the mainland, including the one million that are Rubio's constituents, and the 3.5 million on the Island will remember the Senator's desertion of the Puerto Rican people when they cast their votes in the primaries and the presidential election," he said in a statement Friday.
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The apparent desertion comes amid weeks of violent protests against the administration of President Nicholas Maduro, with at least 22 people dead as a result of the turmoil.. The military desertions are believed to be the first since Maduro came to power in 2013 and could indicate weakening support for the embattled President within the armed forces, according to observers.
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An Army appeals court ruled Tuesday that tweets from President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE attacking U.S. Army soldier Bowe Berghdahl did not unlawfully influence his trial for desertion, according to CNN.
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Bowe Bergdahl plan to ask for his desertion case to be tossed out once President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE takes over as commander in chief.
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