Psychiatrist: Bergdahl mental disorder factored in desertion

Thursday, November 2, 2017

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's difficult childhood and his washout from Coast Guard boot camp stoked serious psychiatric disorders that helped spur him to walk off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday.

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