Berghdal to plead guilty to desertion

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/06/bowe-bergdahl-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-deserting-his-post-ap.html

I'm sure his taliban Dad is proud

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Trump should pardon

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Trump should pardon

I'd rather see him face this (and I think Trump would like it too)

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump should pardon

I'd rather see him face this (and I think Trump would like it too)

Why do you think Trump would want a firing squad when he's executed for treason? A showman to the last?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

@POTUS in 10/2015: "We're tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who's a traitor. He's a traitor. A no-good traitor who should've been executed."

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

[Alabama_Indy10]

Sad

Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

The lives of their fellow workers are not in danger if someone quits in the regular workforce.

[Ye We Can]

Sad

Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

Imagine unironically believing this

[The Mikado]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

The circumstances are different. This would be like a pilot on a commercial airliner quitting his job mid-flight.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Trump should pardon

I'd rather see him face this (and I think Trump would like it too)

Why do you think Trump would want a firing squad when he's executed for treason? A showman to the last?

If Trump gets executed by firing squad for treason, then he needs to puff his chest out Il Duce style and yell out '"aim at my heart".

[SoLongAtlas]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

They have no right to desertion. Service members have little rights to begin with and are subject to the UCMJ and punishable by both military and civilian laws if necessary. Only officers have the right to put in for a resignation and more often than not, it is refused by the CO unless you are at the end of the term of obligated service.

He knew what he was doing when he left the wire and should face the music and Leavenworth.

[RINO Tom]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

Wut.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

wew lad

that's a stretch even for me

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

He plead guilty today. Off to GITMO with him   

[Green Line]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

Every American should receive a Pony.

[7,052,770]

He plead guilty today. Off to GITMO with him   

The 46th president will commute.

[publicunofficial]

If you:

1) Have stated Berghdal should be executed

AND

2) Have never served in the military

You are the biggest micro-dicked chud in the world.

[fluffypanther19]

Sad

Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

bro.......

[Fuzzy Bear]

Sad

Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

This, of course, is ridiculous.  Serving in the Armed Forces is not a "job".  It's vital national service that folks understand is mandatory.

That being said, the call to execute Bergdahl is ridiculous and inhumane.  It is a position designed not out of fairness, but out of a desire to embarrass Obama.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

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Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

That would be an excellent way to lose every single war a military fought.

[Kringla Heimsins]

Has any deserter even been executed for desertion by the US Army since 1945?

[emailking]

Sad

Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

They have no right to desertion. Service members have little rights to begin with and are subject to the UCMJ and punishable by both military and civilian laws if necessary. Only officers have the right to put in for a resignation and more often than not, it is refused by the CO unless you are at the end of the term of obligated service.

He knew what he was doing when he left the wire and should face the music and Leavenworth.

He's saying they should have the right to desertion, not that they do.

Also, I think there's a difference between deserting in the middle of a battle or even in the middle of a deployment, vs. simply wanting to quit the military before x number of years is up.

[SoLongAtlas]

Sad

Desertion needs to be legal, Soldiers should have the right to quit their job at any time just like literally anyone else in the work force.

They have no right to desertion. Service members have little rights to begin with and are subject to the UCMJ and punishable by both military and civilian laws if necessary. Only officers have the right to put in for a resignation and more often than not, it is refused by the CO unless you are at the end of the term of obligated service.

He knew what he was doing when he left the wire and should face the music and Leavenworth.

He's saying they should have the right to desertion, not that they do.

Also, I think there's a difference between deserting in the middle of a battle or even in the middle of a deployment, vs. simply wanting to quit the military before x number of years is up.

Officers can resign (most don't and it likely won't be approved until near the end of commission  date), enlisted members can't. If they do before they EAOS (End of Active Obligated Service), they would be subject to the UCMJ. The only way they can get out is by smoking a joint, other drugs, popping on a piss test, and getting a Gen discharge (I saw this many times at my first command) or committing some other crime but they would be subject to a court martial for higher crimes under the UCMJ and if convicted, they would still be in the military but knocked down to E-1 and sent to a military prison.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

God for him sparing the military the ugliness of a trial. He should be punished harshly in the name of the men who died searching for him.

[emailking]

Officers can resign (most don't and it likely won't be approved until near the end of commission  date), enlisted members can't. If they do before they EAOS (End of Active Obligated Service), they would be subject to the UCMJ. The only way they can get out is by smoking a joint, other drugs, popping on a piss test, and getting a Gen discharge (I saw this many times at my first command) or committing some other crime but they would be subject to a court martial for higher crimes under the UCMJ and if convicted, they would still be in the military but knocked down to E-1 and sent to a military prison.

I know how it works. I'm saying the way it works is unfair/bad.