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It has been 15 years since NFL star Pat Tillman died in the line of duty in Afghanistan. https://twitter.com/ASU/status/1059807616887676928
Tillman joined the Army Rangers and served several tours in combat before he was killed in the mountains of Afghanistan. At first, the Army reported that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire. The Washington Post on 4/4/2005, Army investigators were aware that Tillman had been...
...killed by friendly fire, shot 3 times in the head. Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal approved the Silver Star citation on April 28, 2004, which gave a detailed account of Tillman's death including the phrase "in the line of devastating enemy fire," but the next day he...
...sent a P4 confidential memo warning senior government members that Tillman might actually have been killed by friendly fire. Jones reported that members of Tillman's unit burned his body armor and uniform in an apparent attempt to hide the fact that he was killed by...
...friendly fire.[23] His notebook, in which, according to author Jon Krakauer, Tillman had recorded some of his thoughts on Afghanistan, was also burned; "a blatant violation of protocol. Side Note...Stanley McChrystal was Michael Flynn's Mentor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
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