ROBERT BURNS, LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who’s been recovering in Germany after five years as a Taliban captive, is back in the United States.
A Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, says Bergdahl arrived early Friday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on a flight from Ramstein Air Base. The Idaho native is expected to be reunited there with his family.
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He was captured in Afghanistan in June 2009 and released by the Taliban on May 31 in a deal struck by the Obama administration in which five Taliban officials were released from detention.
Kirby says that Bergdahl will — quote “continue the next phase of his reintegration process” at the Texas base.