Is there ANY evidence that soldiers lost their lives looking for Bowe Bergdahl?

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8. I find this article unconvincing

Apart from the one soldier who was killed by a roadside bomb, the other troops listed as casualties are just listed as part of his unit. there were certainly other operations in the area where they were deployed and their position was under frequent and sometimes deadly attack.

If you click on the article referenced by the one you posted you see that the soldiers quoted are blaming the Sgt. for casualties suffered as a result of an attack that occurred against their U.S.-Afghan outpost where they were conducting joint operations apart from the search for the missing soldier.

The charge by these troops is that their outpost wouldn't have been attacked successfully if they weren't shorthanded by the contingent out looking for the missing soldier.

I have to ask . . . did they think this American was worth rescuing, or not? As a poster above stated, the mantra from conservatives like Cruz was that military force SHOULD have been employed to rescue him. I'm not sure that griping about the risks involved in recovering him square with those criticisms that he was somehow unworthy of being rescued or recovered.