User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-5125815-20140729010753/@comment-4616231-20140730062526

Except they wouldn't look for bodies in the first place because that's an icredibly stupid thing to do during a time of war. Good way to get everyone killed. Kimball didn't send the Reds and Blues out for that reason - she thought they would get killed. And now, it would seem they have. All this proves to them is that sending more people out on stupid missions isn't going to accomplish anything besides a slaughter. Finding their bodies wouldn't even help anything. Good job, you guys got 4 rotting corpses to haul back to base. They have bigger shit to worry about than doing that. Why not something that actually helps win the war?

Also, they can't "find out that they really aren't dead" by simply not finding them. Years ago, we lost our dog. We never found it again, but I'm pretty sure it's dead.