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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Fuck him, he was declared a deserter by the army, he wasn't a POW, he was a hostage..
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This is why the Pentagon never labeled Bergdahl as a POW:
"The Pentagon defines "missing/captured" as a member of the armed forces who has been "seized as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country." Some would say that amounts to being a POW. For purposes of reporting and recording the status of service members, the Pentagon some years ago stopped using the term "prisoner of war," although it awards a POW Medal for eligible service members and it has a Defense POW/Missing Persons Office."
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25...sted-by-us-pow