Officer says he expressed worry about Bergdahl, was hushed
"First sergeant said he didn't want one of his guys telling him what was wrong with somebody in his company," Leatherman told the packed courtroom at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where Bergdahl has been stationed since returning to the U.S. last year after five years in captivity.
Bergdahl's lawyers began their defense of the Idaho native on the second day of his Article 32 hearing, which will determine if Bergdahl will face a court-martial, by calling Leatherman as the first of their four witnesses.
Curtis Aberle, a family nurse practitioner at Fort Sam Houston who has been treating Bergdahl, said the Idaho native suffered extensive injuries during his time as a prisoner that have made him unfit to remain in the military.
While cross-examining witnesses called by the prosecution on Thursday, one of Bergdahl's lawyers mentioned that Bergdahl had received a psychological discharge from the U.S. Coast Guard and that an Army psychiatric board had concluded that Bergdahl possessed a "severe mental defect."