we have two reports starting off with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. bowe bergdahl is at the u.s. military hospital in landstuhl, germany, tonight for a thorough physical exam. but his release this weekend has raised many new questions for the obama white house and bergdahl himself. less than 12 hours after bowe bergdahl departed bagram air base in afghanistan, defense secretary chuck hagel thanked american troops there for bergdahl's safe return. >> this is a happy day, as you all know, for our country, for our armed forces, because we got one of our own back. >> reporter: but just how bergdahl was freed has sparked a political firestorm. on nbc's "meet the press," secretary hagel defended the release of five top taliban prisoners in exchange for bergdahl. >> sergeant bergdahl is a member of the united states army. this was a prisoner exchange. after five years, he has been a prisoner of war. >> reporter: but u.s. military officials tell nbc news the five top taliban leaders freed are considered amo

jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon tonight with that they're telling us there. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. for u.s. military forces, this is the deadliest incident of friendly fire in nearly 13 years of the afghanistan war. it's one of the most heart-wrenching moments for any military family, a casualty officer arriving today to officially tell them their loved one has died in the war. the family welcomed reporters after they learned that their son, their brother, 19-year-old army private first class aaron tappin of illinois was one of those killed by friendly fire in afghanistan. u.s. defense officials report the five americans, three special forces green berets, and two other u.s. soldiers, were killed while on a joint mission with afghan forces in southern afghanistan. they were checking village security in advance of this weekend's presidential runoff elections when, without warning, they were ambushed by taliban forces. an attack so fierce, the americans desperately radioed for combat air cover. an american b-1 bomber quickly respond

and jim miklaszewski. richard engel, first to you. we know there's been some fortifying of the embassy there. some evacuations. what about the situation on the streets in baghdad? >> we just came from a drive around the streets here. first of all, it's not very easy to drive around the streets. there are security checkpoints on every corner. they stop vehicles. they want to know who we are, who the foreigners are, who iraqis are on the streets. and you don't see many iraqis on the streets. many of the shops appeared to be closed. it isn't just soldiers who have deployed on the corners looking in cars, asking for documents. there are also these shiite militias driving around in civilian cars. some were in uniforms. others just wearing all black outfits. their guns, assault rifles hanging outside of their windows. this is a city that is now being secured by the army, by the militias. it doesn't feel like a city that could fall easily. it feels like a city that has taken its gun out, locked and loaded it, and is holding it in its hands s

top defense officials say they intend to get answers that part of the story from jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, ann. bowe bergdahl is still at a u.s. military hospital in germany tonight where he continues to receive medical and psychological care while here at the pentagon the army is gearing up for what could be a criminal investigation. >> scared i won't be able to go home. >> reporter: the army announced today it's prepared to launch a thorough inquiry into bergdahl's actions when he disappeared from this base five years ago. in a rare move the military's top commander, joint chief general martin dempsey also weighed in on facebook. like any american, he is innocent until proven guilty. but dempsey pledged our army's leaders won't look away from misconduct if it occurred. this gentleman was a medic and believes bergdahl should be kilometres per hour mar -- court-martialed for desertion.c. >> he walked away from his duty as a united states army soldier and he needs to be held accountable for that. he needs to go through the due process. >> reporte

our team has been looking for answers and we begin tonight with jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. and all the early joy and celebration over bergdahl's release has indeed being crowded over several growing controversies. in haley, idaho, today, preparations well under way for bowe bergdahl's homecoming, five years in the making. >> i think bowe is very fortunate he is from haley. i can't think of a better place to heal. >> and at the military hospital in germany today, doctors reported bergdahl in stable condition, but suffering from malnutrition and will still require a few days of medical and psychological treatment. after five years in captivity, the taliban released bergdahl over the weekend in a controversial prisoner exchange for five taliban detainees in guantanamo bay, cuba. but since his release, serious questions have been raised about just how bergdahl fell into the hands of taliban. bergdahl seen here was a private first class with the second platoon blackfoot company at this small outpost in a remote area of eastern afghani

i'm joined by nbc's chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski and from idaho, janet shamlian.ik, first to you, the pentagon has been briefing on information regarding bowe bergdahl and his physical state. >> andrea, we got a briefing a few minutes ago from colonel steve warren, who said that the word from the military hospital, he is in stable condition but still requires treatment and hospitalization for what he called, dietary and nutritional needs, along with continuing psychological evaluation. now, warren stopped short of describing bowe bergdahl's condition as malnutrition, but after five years in captivity, he has nutritional needs. interestingly enough, he's in phase two of a three-step integration process. and in this process, he's kept pretty much inkmund caddo. he won't talk to his parents until both bowe bergdahl and his psychologist agree that the time is right. eventually when he's released into phase three, they will reinterere interest tegrate him into media engagements and the like. besides being questioned by medical doctors and psychologists, he's being ques

i have with me evan coleman, jim miklaszewski and his anger at unfinished. let me go to bobby gosch here to respond to different things said by senator mccain including that this is the legacy of president obama and actions taken. nuri al maliki turned down, as you pointed out obama's desire to leave troops behind in iraq. >> yes. look, there are questions to be asked about the quality of training that these iraqi soldiers got from the u.s. military and it affects the leg cease of both bush and obama, but let's not forget that obama wanted to leave just as he's doing in afghanistan, some soldiers and up to 30,000 at some point there's up to 30,000 soldiers in iraq and nuri al maliki and the iraqi government turned him down. i wonder how he feels about that this morning. it was not so much that the united states voluntarily withdrew all of its soldiers. we wanted to keep some there. we were told thanks, but no thanks. >> again, this is also about the partnership. who is in charge of that country. the prime minister of that country has been accused of excludin

we start off our reporting this evening with our pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: in a video of bowe bergdahl's released passed out by the taliban yesterday, a clean-shaven bergdahl looks to be in good physical condition, but the white house first reported in a taliban video from december, bergdahl appeared to be in such bad shape, the u.s. needed to bring him home to save his life. >> we had reason to be concerned this was urgent and acute situation, that his life could have been at risk. >> reporter: a claim repeated today by defense secretary chuck hagel. >> it was our judgment based on the information we had that his life, his health were in peril. >> reporter: although the video remains classified, senior u.s. officials that described the tape to nbc news say it showed bergdahl in declining health, that he lost weight, was cradling one arm and spoke english with a slight stutter but medical teams determined he did not appear in grave condition or in danger of dying. and the white house today came up with still another story line, that president obama could no

>> jim miklaszewski, as we said, limited options at the pentagon. for more on this, we're joined by retired u.s. army four-star general barry mccaffrey. in addition to balanced budget a heavily decorated ranger, he's recognized for the first iraq war. he's an nbc news military analyst. general, tell the viewers how bad this is, how bad is this group isis and where do you see this going? >> well, brian, it's shocking to watch a giant military and police force come apart. there were apparently over 55,000 iraqi police and army up in mosul, city of 2 million people. nobody knows how many fighters are in isis, but let's say there's not more than 9,000. we're watching a giant iraqi security force come apart, thousands of armored vehicles, 400 tanks. we're looking at overhead satellite coverage of mosul airfield with u.s. helicopters still on the ground. it's really shocking. it's going to be a tragedy for the iraqi families, as well as the u.s. forces, 36,000 killed and wounded in that fight. >> what are the u.s. options as you see them? >> they are extr

jim miklaszewski, nbc news, the pentagon. >> earlier i spoke exclusively, as i say, with secretary of defense chuck hagel. he was at bagram air base near kabul in afghanistan. i began by asking him about those reports that the timing of this operation was prompted by concerns about bergdahl's health. >> well, david, as you know, he has been held for five years, and that's five years of very difficult living, and we don't know yet all the specifics and details. he is in landstuhl, germany, at our medical facility there. our health care professionals are now with him, and they will be giving him complete checkups. we will be giving him exactly what he needs, and until we get those evaluations, we just don't know much more. although he did walk to the extraction helicopter. he did perform the basic duties and responsibilities when that process took place, but beyond that i wouldn't want to speculate. >> can you take us inside what happened? how you were actually able to get him? how these negotiations proceeded with the taliban? >> well, first, i want to congratulate, again, all who had

. >> jim miklaszewski, we've had incidents over the years of afghan forces and afghan police and others turning on americans, tragically. but i can't think of another major incident of friendly fire of this kind of mistake. there was the pat tillman horrible friendly fire incident finally acknowledged by the pentagon back in 2004. ten years ago. there were several incidents involving british and canadian forces who were hit by friendly fire, but i can't think of too many incidents involving american troops that have been killed by friendly fire over this very long war. >> there have been incidents where one may be caught in a cross fire and shot by their own forces. but not in this kind of number, five killed is the worst kind of incident of its kind in afghanistan, andrea. >> thanks so much, richard engel and jim miklaszewski sean ann gearan as well. we'll take a break and have more on the bowe bergdahl controversy after these messages. stay with us. ♪ ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle, see how much you could save. we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighter

jim miklaszewski joining me now from the pentagon and what is the very latest that we are learning, mik? is. >> well, these five americans were on a training mission with the afghan security force s s i the province of southern afghanistan in what should have been a routine operation turned into a tragic mishap. it is not clear what the mission was, but apparently some reports that they were out to screen polling stations for the upcoming runoff elections for this weekend, but that is not even clear at this point, but what is clear is that they came in under a heavy and fierce attack under taliban forces and returned fire, but the taliban kept on relentlessly so that the americans had to call in an airstrike. a b-1 stealth bomber, and then came up upon the scene, and launched a precision-guided bomb that fell on what they thought was the taliban target, but unfortunately, killed the five americans and kill the one taliban soldier. by all accounts, it appears to have been either mechanical or electronic or human error and a terrible accident, but just how it happened won't be known until

officials tell nbc's jim miklaszewski bergdahl tried to escape and when caught was confined to a small box-like space. he was clearly treated more harshly at sometimes but wouldn't say if that rose to the level of torture. officials also say he hasn't yet chosen to call his parents, despite the fact his doctors have said he can. meanwhile, back at his hometown hailey, idaho, some say they are stunned by the backlash against bergdahl, amidst allegations he may be a deserter for walking off his base, something defense officials are investigating. >> it's been very shocking, i think, how vicious the attacks have been. >> reporter: the fbi says it is investigating reports of death threats against the bergdahl family. >> we are aware of the threats to the bergdahl family, and we are working with our local law enforcement partners to investigate. as always, we take these types of threats very seriously. >> reporter: in washington, there was more bipartisan anger that lawmakers weren't notified before the five taliban detainees were released from guantanamo. >> it's hard to be comfortable whe

our own jim miklaszewski is reporting forces captured on a desolate stretch of desert after being tracked by an unmanned drone. when fbi agents closed in, he surrendered without a fight, was taken away in a small boat to a u.s. navy ship in the mediterranean. >>> more cleanup today in pilger, nebraska, where the two twin tornadoes swept through town, killing two people earlier this week, including a 5-year-old girl. then last night, another tornado causing damage to several pharmacy. but thankfully, no injuries. >>> in the east, the first real heatwave of the season. temperatures in the 90s all along the midatlantic, including philadelphia, where they sent kids home early from school. then again there is the scene in northern montana, if you can believe it, where glacier national park has gotten up to 16 inches of snow since yesterday morning. leaving some folks snow-bound. here we are in the middle of june. >>> the pressure just increased on the washington redskins to change their team name. starting with the fact that they may no longer have the exclusive use of their own name in the lu

army colonel jack jacobs and msnbc strategist jimy williams and nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski, and jim, let me talk to you first, that you were talking about comments that i was talking to the army specialist about the politics of this intertwined with the military decisions that were made and you heard him say, and we will take him at his word, and he does not care about the politics of it, but his priority is that the story, the truth is known whatever the investigation concludes is the truth, and he cle clearly has made up his mind that bergdahl is a deserter. >> and certainly, the military leadership here sh, and quite frankly civilian leadership at the pentagon, they are not interested in the politics of this either, and we saw the message from the joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey on facebook in which he said, hey, he is innocent until proven guilty talking about bergdahl, and then he said, but the army leadership is not going to turn away if in fact there is any evidence of misconduct. and the fact of the matter is that they are not at a point yet to launch a

nbc's chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski joins us with the very latest. a routine mission that unfortunately went terribly wrong. five american special operations forces were killed along with one afghan soldier in zabul, o province in southern afghanistan. they were on security sweeps of polling stations in advance of this weekend's runoff elections there in afghanistan, when suddenly they came under a fierce attack from the taliban. the soldiers were pinned down, they called in an air strike, a u.s. stealth bomber launched weapons and unfortunately struck and killed the five americans and the one afghan. it's impossible to tell right now exactly what happened. an investigation is under way, willie. >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, a terrible story this morning. jim, thanks so much. >>> officials in las vegas say the married couple blamed for killing two police officers held anti-government and white supremacist views. they say jerad and amanda miller shot the officers in a restaurant sunday, draping one body with a swastika and a "don't tread on me"

. >> let's go to jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. >> there are questions being raised about the status of bergdahl when he left his base voluntarily back nearly five years ago. i can tell you that according to one official here today, you know, it appears that he may have been a deserter or maybe just a misguided young man who didn't have any clue what he was getting himself into. secretary hagel said yesterday before any kind of investigation is launched, they want to get him up on his feet and healthy before anybody is going to consider an investigation into the circumstances around his departure. i can tell you the pentagon is looking into the possibility and we're told it's a very strong possibility that a handful of soldiers were killed in the search for bowe bergdahl over the past five years. >> a number of republicans are raising questions over whether the white house violated an act by failing to give 30 days' notice from guantanamo bay. susan rice said they knew it could happen at least in theory. >> we have had extensive consultations in the past that this could happen. when

. >> joining me now, nbc's chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski.story has gone in a lot of directions. where does it go from here? >> reporter: not anybody at the white house expected it but for five years the u.s. military has taken the position and an early investigation had taken the position that bowe bergdahl walked away from his outpost. the big question is why did he do it? that's going to be one of the issues obviously that they want to sit bowe bergdahl down and talk to him about, okay, what were the circumstances and if you did leitch the base voluntarily, as the very first investigation into this pretty much concluded, what were your reasons? what did you intend to do? and they're also interested in very obviously what were the circumstances around his capture, falling into the hands of the taliban and whatever intel he can provide them about the taliban but they're not going to do any of that until bowe bergdahl finally leaves that military hospital in landstuhl, germany, is reunited with had and not until then when they feel he's in th

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jim miklaszewski, nbc news, the pentagon. >> earlier i spoke exclusively, as i say, with secretary of defense chuck hagel. he was at bagram air base near kabul in afghanistan. i began by asking him about those reports that the timing of this operation was prompted by concerns about bergdahl's health. >> well, david, as you know, he has been held for five years, and that's five years of very difficult living, and we don't know yet all the specifics and details. he is in landstuhl, germany, at our medical facility there. our health care professionals are now with him, and they will be giving him complete checkups. we will be giving him exactly what he needs, and until we get those evaluations, we just don't know much more. although he did walk to the extraction helicopter. he did perform the basic duties and responsibilities when that process took place, but beyond that i wouldn't want to speculate. >> can you take us inside what happened? how you were actually able to get him? how these negotiations proceeded with the taliban? >> well, first, i want to congratulate, again, all who had

thank you, barry mccaffrey and jim miklaszewski. chuck, before we go to break, this is a real challenge because joe biden and the president with joe biden having the iraq account for the last couple of years, put their money on maliki. >> it wasn't just him. everybody in congress too. for better or for worse, everybody was all in on this strategy, mccain, graham, those folks, betting on maliki of these options. i hear what richard is saying, you couldn't have the president go out and say maliki had to go as a price for the u.s. to get involved. in many ways, that was the subtle message he was saying. >> and perhaps a term limit and agree not to a third term which we'll talk about in a bit. we talked earlier with john mccain and what he thinks about the obama administration, what they should do. we'll hear from that in a moment. we'll be right back. >> we have enormous interests there and obviously our troops and the american people and american taxpayers made huge investments and sacrifices in order to give iraqis the opportunity to

jim miklaszewski joining me now from the pentagon and what is the very latest that we are learning, mikans were on a training mission with the afghan security force s s i the province of southern afghanistan in what should have been a routine operation turned into a tragic mishap. it is not clear what the mission was, but apparently some reports that they were out to screen polling stations for

our jim miklaszewski says he was subjected to harsh treatment, and what do you make of that and what does it mean about how long the reintegration process might be? >> well, the military has the formula to get him back to normal, but it is horrific conditions, and it shows the pressure that the white house was under to get the e negotiated release. certainly, they had some idea of the conditions he was in in the years from the intelligence and even through the negotiation. so they were faced with the hobson's choice, leave him there like the secretary said, and could he be kill or do we trade him for the taliban prisoners who we might have had to release in six months to a year anyway if we could not charge them criminally. >> and i want to turn to you that we are also learning that sergeant bergdahl is not yet ready to talk to his parents. do doctors have said he k but it is up to him when that e feels appropriate, and what do you make of that and the latest reports we are hearing about his recovery process? >> well, we know it is very hard. we have heard accounts before, and i have

unassisted on to the chopper looking in pretty decent health as nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski explains. >> reporter: the consensus is he looks in pretty good physical condition. now, what his condition is psychologically, nobody is going to know until they finally get -- and the doctors at landstuhl, germany, are now trying to figure that out. it's one of the things they're doing and trying to -- physical and psychological treatment there at landstuhl before he heads back to the united states. >> nbc's peter alexander is traveling with the president in brussels. the president is there for g7 meetings but this is certainly overshadowing his trip. how is the white house handling the criticism over how this transpired? >> reporter: josh that is exactly right certainly here in europe the focus is on the g7 meetings taking place but back at home and the white house officials here are well aware of the controversy they have stirred up. they anticipated it would be focused largely on guantanamo bay, itself, the detainees, and what to do with those detainees, the future of that site,

and they tell our jim miklaszewski that they wanted to make sure that they didn't attach a bomb to bergdahl. they wanted to whisk him away to safety, but the exchange lasted only one minute and as you can see, no violence. i want to bring in msnbc contributor and democratic congressman from pennsylvania patrick murphy who is the first iraq war veteran to serve in congress and we are also joined by charles stimpson who is the detainee affairs secretary under george bush's edadministration. i want to look at the extraordinary video, and something that we rarely get to see, the taliban fighter signalling to the americans they have bergdahl, and they wave the white flag and richard engel says it is not a signed sign of surrender, but look at the moment when they meet. tell me what you see in the video, and talk about how tense a moment this must have been. >> well, i will tell you, chris, my heart goes out to those american soldiers, those pie special forces professionals, because they are going, and they understand that the tallpan is surrounding them with rocket-propelled grenades and ready t

let's go to nbc's jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. this video is extraordinary to look at, mik. what more can you tell us about the circumstances of this exchange, it looks so smooth when you watch the video but could have been so dangerous. >> well, it was complicated. the first impression i'm hearing from people in the pentagon is that he actually looks in pretty remarkable physical condition. no idea how he is psychologically. but physically, they think he looks pretty good. second of all, we saw in that video that they frisked -- the special operations forces frisked bergdahl not once, but twice. and we're told that it was out of fear that the taliban might have planted a suicide bomb on that american soldier. >> meantime, mik, as you well know, there's so much fallout about the circumstances of bergdahl's departure from the army. so many former soldiers, platoon mates speaking out against him. they had signed these nondisclosure agreements, which apparently they now feel they are released from. how are the pentagon brass really reacting to this and the soldiers coming out a

we'll go live to nbc's jim miklaszewski at the pentagon in a moment. but we begin with richard engel who has made his way to northern iraq this morning, richard, good you. ive milts c offensive. and so far, the iraqi government seems powerless to stop it the prime minister is calling on average citizens to take up arms to try to recapture their citizens. he's asking the united states to intervene with aircraft, with drones, intelligence, whatever is necessary. the iraqi government is losing control of large parts of northern and central iraq. some iraqi security forces are fighting. but most appear to be stripping off their uniforms in the streets, abandoning vehicles and weapons. they're retreating from islamic extremists, an offshoot of al qaeda, which took over iraq's second-largest city, mosul and then overnight advanced further. occupying large parts of tikrit and beiji. civilians are fleeing -- officials say up to 500,000 displaced already. the u.s. fought a nearly decade-long war, costing thousands of american lives and a trillion dollars for th

joining us now from washington, jim miklaszewski. jim? supposed to be a fairly routine operation. americans working side by side with afghans. but something, obviously, went terribly wrong. the five americans killed were special operations forces, who were working with afghan security forces and one of their soldiers also died. they were on a routine sweep of polling places in southern afghanistan in zabul province prior to this coming weekend's runoff elections when suddenly they came under a vicious attack by the taliban. repeatedly the taliban attacked thesis forces, so the americans had to call in an air strike. we're told by american officials that a b-1 stealth bomber then unleashed its weapons at the site, unfortunately, killing five americans and the one taliban. the whole thing is under investigation. it's really impossible to tell right now whether there was a mechanical or electronic malfunction, or it was human error. that will all come out in the investigation. but i must tell you that this is a very stark reminder to many am

chief correspondent jim miklaszewski reports. >> reporter: less than 12 hours of bowe bergdahl departedagram air base, chuck hagel thanked troops there for his safe return. >> this is a happy day, as you all know, for our country, for our armed forces because we got one of our own back. >> reporter: but just how bergdahl was freed has sparked a political fire storm. on "meet the press," secretary hagel defended the release of five taliban prisoners in exchange for sergeant bergdahl. >> he is a member of the united states army. this was a prisoner exchange. after five years, he's been a prisoner of war. >> reporter: but u.s. military officials tell nbc news the five top taliban leaders freed are considered among the most dangerous at guantanamo bay. in secret documents, the pentagon classified all five as high risk likely threat to the u.s. and recommended for continued detention. >> these are the hardest of the hard core. these are the highest high risk people. and others that have been released have gone back into the fight. >> reporter: even though they will remain under the control o

jim miklaszewski and courtney have been working their sources, getting new reporting on what happenedted attempt to escape, a defense official says it's not clear whether he was seld in a small cell or a box, but he was apparently confined. they're also reporting as for the allegations he may have been tortured, a defense official says he was clearly treated more harshly at some times but it's not clear that rose to the level of torture, and that defense official not giving specifics about what that means, more harshly. again, sergeant bergdahl continues to recover. officials saying he is not yet ready to call his parents. this all comes as the debate over the prisoner swap continues to rage on here in washington. lawmakers took to the sunday shows to debate this issue. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers saying he believes at least thirty-two ree of thosd taliban members will return to the afghan war. he's basing that on some of his intellgents. sectar of state john kerry saying it's possible they might return to the afghan war but the united state

. >> and we will weigh in with jim mi miklaszewski. hear that drons could be used by gathering intelligence here, and what are you hearing there? >> well, ofar, the officials are saying that we have given all possible military options to the president, and they are waiting for him to select one from column a or b and whatever one e from column b. then they will plunge into the necessary military planning to carry out whatever the president's orders are. that doesn't mean they are not looking at options now in terms of aircraft, ships, drones and all options possible options for planning. but until they get the word from the president, they can't really firmly layout an attack plan if that's what the president orders. and one of the things that people here worry about is the targeting. because you know, to simply go up into an airplane and say, oh, that looks like a target and unleash bombs is not the way that the u.s. military does it. they need to know precisely who they are aiming at and where they are, which requires a certain amoun

lawmakers are not happy and as jim mick la ch-- miklaszewski reports. >> reporter: it's preparing to launch an inquiry into bowe bergdahl's actions when he disappeared from this base in afghanistan in afghanistan five years ago. and in a rare move, the military's top commander general martin dempsey weighed in on facebook. like any american he is innocent until proven guilty. but our army's leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred. josh joshua corneilson. >> he walked away from his duty as a soldier. he needs to go through due process. >> reporter: desertion is considered one of the most severe charges in the military justice system. >> you have to have gis who stay at their duty station, who do not wander off, who are there to perform duty. otherwise there's no way you can achieve a military mission. >> reporter: the army's also set to review the circumstances behind the deaths of six soldiers killed in action during operations searching for bergdahl. one killed was bergdahl's platoon leader. his mother wants to see bergdahl brought to justice. >> he's not a hero. h