“Capt. John Billings, who led Bergdahl’s platoon, described the 45-day search for the Idaho native as grueling, saying soldiers got little food or sleep and endured temperatures in the high-90s.”
“Finally, Bergdahl’s battalion commander, Col. Clinton Baker, said that although no soldiers died as part of the search, there was a spike in improvised explosive device attacks because soldiers were going to places they ordinarily wouldn’t have gone.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/17/army-sgt-bowe-bergdahl-faces-hearing-over-desertion-charges/
But...
“ Cheryl Brandes said she has spoken to the six platoon mates of Bergdahl, who appeared together on The Kelly File last night, and has no doubt they are telling the truth. She says they have told her that her son, 20-year-old Pfc. Matthew Martinek, was part of a search for Bergdahl when he was struck by an IED a few months after Bergdahl walked off the base.
“The accounts of everything that happened, every detail that I was told when my son was hit. There’s no way that anybody could ever make anything like that up. They wouldn’t do that. They’re not liars. They’re our defenders of America,” said Brandes.”
However, were any other units or special ops teams looking for him?
There was probably an official search period and an extended unofficial search period. So maybe technically no one was killed during the official search period, but some lost their live in the unofficial search for him that stretch on after the official search ended.
Bergdahl is gone June 30, 2009. He was in the 4th BCT.
Aug 18, 2009 SSG Clayton Bowen of 4th BCT dies
Aug 18, 2009 PFC Morris Walker of 4th BCT dies
Aug 26, 2009 SSG Kurt Curtiss of 4th BCT dies
Sep 4, 2009 2LT Darryn Andrews of 4th BCT dies
Sep 4, 2009 PFC Matthew Martinek of 4th BCT dies
Sep 6, 2009 SSG Michael Murphy, of 4th BCT dies
I think the parsing of words here is the story caveats the search as taking ‘45 days’.