jraeyre wrote:
<< since he was a POW according to the Army>>

Guess again.

Jra
http://nation.time.com/2012/05/17/pentagon-we-dont-call-them-pows-anymore/

In fact, the Pentagon told Time on Wednesday – to the surprise of experts in the field – that it stopped using the term “prisoner of war” in 2000. That’s before 9/11 and all the legal debate over the status of alleged al Qaeda operatives at Guantanamo Bay (the Bush Administration ultimately termed them “illegal enemy combatants”).

“It is true that Sergeant Bergdahl is being held by criminal actors, and not a nation-state and signatory to the Geneva Conventions, but the POW designation was changed several years ago to `Missing-Captured,’” Commander William Speaks, a Pentagon spokesman, says. “The `POW’ designation has gone away completely



What do I win?


Edited 1 time by nessus2 06/05/14 07:50.