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>> sergeant bergdahl deferred those decisions to a later hearing. >> reporter: bergdahl said more publicly he said he walked away from a combat outpost in afghanistan in 2009 to try to bring attention to what he called poor leadership in his unit. >> the lives of the eyes standing next to me were literally, from what i could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong. >> reporter: the taliban captured and held him until president obama secured his release last year. as part of a swap for ...

>> well, i think youve nailed it, carol. hes an idealistic young man who thought he could be jason bourne and on his own run from his combat outpost to another forward operating base over a miles away -- over a dozen miles away, to report to another general officer. its unbelievable. this kid has watched too many hollywood movies. he simply, as you said, was totally irresponsible. by the way, just one comment, the reason i think they went to a general court-martial and didnt just stick with a sp...

Out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. and we were trying to take that city back. >> its the sixth straight day of around the clock operations. the men are exhausted. >> wed been up for about 36 hours at this point, and were making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the bombed out buildings were difficult to see from the windows. narrow al...

The world that anybody who used to know me, that i was capable of being that person. >> like a super soldier, you mean? >> yeah. capable of being what i appeared to be. like doing what i did was me saying i am like, i dont know, jason bourne. >> seemed like he knew he was in trouble and he wanted to be able to go back to that base or he says go to a base 12 miles away to give up information on what he thought was a bad command but he wanted to bring something with him like i have been killing ta...

Out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. and we were trying to take that city back. >> its the squadrons sixth straight day of around the clock combat operations, and the men are exhausted. >> wed been up for about 36 hours at this point, and were making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the buildings, the bombed out buildings, were difficu...

This bomb maker in the open sas space. tell the story how he took him out. >> sure. real quick. there was a fierce battle in february 2010. during that battle a afghan was detained and brought back to the combat outpost. he was identified by a tribal leader as a taliban bomb maker. matt was in a position he wasnt able to detain the individual any longer, so he was released. he could have went anywhere in afghanistan after he left the outpost. shortly after that matt and one of the other members ...

Any assignment there, as we all knew was going to be a difficult one. we were out on a patrol with the marines. on our way back we were hit by an ied just outside the gates of hurricane point. it was a combat outpost. i believe it was an old palace complex on the west side of town. you know i have to say that while writing this it just reminded me of all the times the guys in this convoy and many other patrols for all those years went out daily and survived ieds and in many cases did not survive...

>> i checked on my crew to find out everybody is all right. i called it up that we were fwood to go, still rolling. >> the convoy continues quickly back to its combat outpost after inspecting their vehicles for damage, the men can finally breathe a sigh of relief. sergeant cat rel realizes the bradleys open hatch is what saved his life. >> i had it straight up, and i tell you, that hatch was between me and a lot of the debris that blasted through. put a few big dings in the hatch, but im very ha...

>> no cas. >> the radio came back on, he said they were all okay. >> i think i may have been knocked out for a few seconds, then realized what happened, checked on my crew, found out everybody is all right. call it up that we were good to go, still rolling. >> the convoy continues quickly back to its combat outpost. after inspecting the vehicles for damage, the men can finally breathe a sigh of relief. sergeant catrell realizes the bradleys open hatch was what saved his life. >> for protection i...

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 ...