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Do for morale when he left? >> well, i mean, obviously we don't want to leave any of our soldiers behind, so i mean, that -- we went looking for him. it sucks when we are missing one of our men. and on top of that, you know, it doesn't really start to hit you until, you know, you start losing your friends as well. and, you know, when we lost -- when i lost -- when our platoon and our company and everybody when we lost both six guys including matthew martunic and sergeant andrews, it's really hard. it's -- because, you know, you start -- i started to lose sight of what was really going on we st...

>> well, i mean, obviously we don't want to leave any of our soldiers behind, so i mean, that -- we went looking for him. it sucks when we are missing one of our men. and on top of that, you know, it doesn't really start to hit you until, you know, you start losing your friends as well. and, you know, when we lost -- when i lost -- when our platoon and our company and everybody when we lost both six guys including matthew martunic and sergeant andrews, it's really hard. it's -- because, you know, you start -- i started to lose sight of what was really going on we stayed true to the mission and...

Bergdahl. a lot of our platoons were spread thin already. our platoon or the third platoon, my platoon was ambushed and we lost lt. andrews and matthew martunic. lt. andrews saved some lives that day as well. to me, those are heroes, not someone who abandoned their platoon and left in the middle of the night and put everybody in danger for months and months and months to come. >> if i understand this correctly, that your platoon that got ambushed, the men in your platoon that were ambushed, they were actually out searching for sergeant bergdahl? >> right. that was part of the mission, yes, was...