At the end of the first Bad Company you are given new orders to take the truck loaded with gold and follow the convoy. Part way down the road you turn off to the right (leaving the convoy) with the members of the squad implying what they are going to do with their new wealth.

However, after playing through Bad Company 2 I cannot see how these two plot lines relate. Your squad (in the second game) is now a counter-intelligence unit trying to acquire a device. Its almost like Bad Company 2 is in an alternative universe, or the group changed their minds at the end of the first game, or the theft went unnoticed.

Have I missed anything in game that explains how the group "got away with it" - in that they have the gold from Bad Company 1 by slipping away from the convoy but are still in the army as an active unit by the time Bad Company 2 events begin?