Bergdahl Six - How They Died for Bergdahl

I'm adding to what I've already posted on the six American soldiers who were killed looking for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.  This is a rare Ushanka Tribute post.

This is a merge of photos from Douglas Barkley's RARE article, and how they died by Nathan Bethea's Blaze article (with video).  U/T: to FB comrades for link to the RARE article, and to James Taranto for linking to the Blaze article.

Our battalion suffered six fatalities in a three-week period.

On August 18, an IED killed Private First Class Morris Walker and Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen during a reconnaissance mission.  

On August 26, while conducting a search for a Taliban shadow sub-governor supposedly affiliated with Bergdahl’s captors, Staff Sergeant Kurt Curtiss was shot in the face and killed.

On September 4, during a patrol to a village near the area in which Bergdahl vanished, an insurgent ambush killed Second Lieutenant Darryn Andrews and gravely wounded Private First Class Matthew Martinek, who died of his wounds a week later.

 

On September 5, while conducting a foot movement toward a village also thought affiliated with Bergdahl’s captors, Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey stepped on an improvised land mine. He died the next day.