Army Sergeant and former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty to "desertion and misbehavior before the enemy" at a military hearing at Fort Bragg on Monday, according to CNN.
Bergdahl left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban. He was released in a 2014 prisoner exchange for five Taliban prisoners.
Bergdahl, 31, told the judge that he “left [his] observation post on [his] own.”
“I understand leaving was against the law,” he said.
But Bergdahl also said he deserted his post to try and reach his dispatch base to report a "critical problem in my chain of command," CNN reported.
He didn’t say what the “critical problem” was.
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Bergdahl could get up to life in prison when he's sentenced by the military judge.
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