Several months later, the replacement unit died, too.
After about six months, the cooling unit died and leaked water all over the floor.
Children, she said, "don't just wind up in a pediatric care unit, dying from a bump on the head".
The leader of the unit died in 1993 but six soldiers were later convicted of the crime.
According to his conscientious objector application, Sergeant Mejia was particularly upset when a young Iraqi boy was shot and, because of confusion at the medical unit, died.
"Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down," Nathan Bethea, a former soldier who says he served in Bergdahl's unit, wrote in the Daily Beast on Monday.
The detective, James Zadroga, 34, who ended his career with an elite Manhattan homicide unit, died of pulmonary disease on Thursday at his parents' home in New Jersey, said Michael J. Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association.
David Jones, a cerebral and versatile British-born director who worked on projects as esoteric as the neglected plays of Maxim Gorky, as admired as the films "84 Charing Cross Road" and "Betrayal" and as mundane as TV's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," died on Sept. 18 in Rockport, Me.
Then the director of the research unit died.
"Bergdahl was a deserter," he writes, "and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down".
