It might not be legally binding. But...Originally posted by BABiscuit:
The reporting I have read on these soldiers states their deaths were after the immediate search for Bergdahl. They may have happened on assignments that had a secondary objective, but the primary objective was not to find Bergdahl. Here is a link from the National Review regarding this. If you want to claim people dies as a result of shifting resources, that is more difficult to dispute, but IMCC is clearly using the deaths of these six for political reasons and deserves to be called out for claiming their was an official release backing up his claims.
If Bergdahl's actions changed the course of normal events and people were impacted as a result, then his actions have at least a secondary impact on those results. In this case the course of events was altered and people died.
Weather it ever impacts the court martial case, or not.
Are you saying that his AWOL didn't have an impact on the course of events after his departure?