with desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place and has referred the case to an article 32 preliminary hearing. again sergeant bergdahl is charged under the uniform code of military justice with one count of article 85 desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and one count of article 99 misbehavior before the enemy be endangering the safety of a command, unit or place. as you recall sergeant bergdahl disappeared june 30th, 2009 from combat outpost in paktika province, afghanistan, and was subsequently captured. regarding next steps.
they re simply going to take it could be an infantry officer, a field artillery officer, a medical officer which is what ft. sam is known for. it is not a legal person that will more likely than not be hearing this case. it will be a lay person that will decide whether this case should be bound over for general court-martial. barbara star lieutenant colonel scott mann and david rohde. sergeant bowe bergdahl will be facing desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. coming up next the plane crash in the french alps. we ve just learned today that investigators did manage to recover that audio chip from one of those black boxes that cockpit voice recorder. this is key.
thank you. all right. so as we ve been reporting, we ve now officially heard it from ft. bragg that sergeant bowe bergdahl has been charged with desertion and also misbehavior before the enemy. let s talk about as we heard him run through potential maximum punishments here we obviously have to have the military judicial system run its course. barbara, as you explained and we have multiple guests to parse this with me basically this goes to this article about 232 hearing which is a grand jury hearing. they have to have enough evidence to proceed with these charges. an article about 232 is exactly what was expected once we heard the charge of desertion because it is so serious. article 32 is analogous in civilian justice system to a grand jury proceeding. however, the authority that will run the article 32 can call
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i am. how are you this afternoon? i m all right. we re a little busy here at cnn. to barbara s point it doesn t get more serious than desertion, you have to prove that that person pefrnever intended to return to base there in eastern afghanistan. members of the u.s. military stood out there and we ve seen the video here of them risking their lives to be part of this prisoner exchange with members of the taliban. your reaction to all of this? well i think the reaction across the military is probably going to be very positive. most of the soldiers who were with him reported a very different story than what was known in the news about him and what he had done in afghanistan. as we also talked a few weeks ago when what s called the a.r. or army regulation 15-6 was conducted by his general court-martial authority and that was general milley at ft. hood