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His recovery, they said, will be a multistep process, beginning with medical treatment and initial counseling at an American military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, then by longer-term therapy at a military medical center in San Antonio before culminating in a carefully managed homecoming in Hailey, Idaho. Even then, Sergeant Bergdahl, 28, will probably need lengthy counseling to help him deal with the trauma of his years as a prisoner of war and to adjust to his new life, according to experts in long-term captivity. How fast or fully he recovers, they said, is impossible to predict. ------------------ Why is the OP referring to the POW as a defector? It is not yet clear whether Sergeant Bergdahl was tortured by his captors, as were many prisoners of war in North Vietnam. But given the ruthless reputation of those who held him, experts said it was likely, at a minimum, that he faced unremitting fear. “The Haqqani network that held him are battle-hardened terrorists, one of the most ruthless in the Taliban network,” said Dan O’Shea, a retired Navy SEAL commander who coordinated the hostage working group in the American Embassy in Baghdad from 2004 to 2006. “He had to wake up every morning with the thought ‘Is today the day I am going to meet my fate?' ” This does not read like the POW was a defector to me.
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