Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of Pat Tillman PART 3
Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of United States Army Ranger Pat Tillman in friendly fire incident.
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call in air supportthey got a rare immediately and we had
our sport down thereonce the f_-sixteens dropped more news
on the positionswe had no more church fires later that
nightoperation anacondawears onultimately several hundred al-qaeda and
taliban fighters are killed or capturedin the fightingbut despite this difference sealing off
the street co-foundermany doesn't enemy combatants escape the
courtand over the next couple of years they
gradually britewe acquit and begin launching minor
offenses against coalition forcespresident of the countryin late springtwenty second marineexpeditionary unit use into afghanistan
to beat that this growing talibanresurgencewhere they're becauseis going on in september works the
elections the first elections neck andsince we were theretrying to tell them from any kind of
significant operationsends killer capture or anyal that we couldthe marines target their initial push at
the city of terroristin the always gone provincehe'd toronto set up our base of
operationswas opposed by some common cause i knowand was also birthplace of the talibanand so by going there and the coalitionsent right after presence in that regionwe're going to be able to do wasshow the strength of the central
government and also show that thetaliban have nowhere to hideon the morning of june third during a
push toward the taliban stronghold ofdaschle panto platoons from charlie company first
battalion six marines entered thevillage of khobar blue and begin
house-to-house search for enemycombatantsall the sudden person on the apache
attack helicopters were supporting ussource and i stay in the area const
orders to translatefifteen to twenty taliban fighters take
to the hills behind the villageannemarieskewed chase on bushcouple times there wasthat talent and engagement rifle machine
gun firepursued continueda marine squad led by then sergeant
anthony b_g_ aunty is out in fronthis meds to reduce the number of
televisionbut plenty of enemy fighters remainand a chase leads into a valley whiskey
rocky slopesthe taliban split into two groups have
been moved to opposite sides of thebalanceso sergeant the g_r_e_puts his squawkingand since glider teams in both
directionsthey're walking into an ambushlieutenant chris need to yoko observed a
flight from his unit's position on adistant branchtaliban's up in there and it's almost
like everywhere he goes up to preparefor any positionsex and covertransactions instrumenton the right surging p_g_ awning lingers
behind for a moment to confer with hisfirst sergeantthe senior marine linked up with this
one when the chase beganon the left meanwhile clyde dot
consuming selling as the americansagainst hate fighters from the enemya marine has taken an a_k_-forty seven
round right calffrito-lay it was like a sledgehammer
snap into his legand discarda budget gets the wounded behind a
locked and starts first daycorn and come up closeleslie advantage because the firehe was shot instructions on how to take
careback across the valleysergeant major yani has now beenforwardcheck on his other fire chiefthey are crossfiretoday about retentionfirst offsetup the jagged unannouncedfor starting the cease-fire continues
she got messed hidden in the rocksgreat work for himwe're getting close enough to toss it
will mean breathing gauntlet multiplemurdersand later the story behind the shootoutthe took the life of pro football player
turned army ranger pat tillmannear the village of com park sample
province afghanistantwo thousandsergeant anthony the g_r_e_ squad of
charlie company first battalion sixmarines has struck an ambushamericans are woundednow digiovanni has just received an
urgent radio call from his firstsergeanthe needs a fragmentation grenade
immediatelyhe must have spotted an enemy hideoutdigiovanni rushes down to his leader's
positionthe first sergeant several dozen your
gigolo pgl on the hillsidewhether at workreports and directiondollars justmoves down the slope with his wifeand a fragmentation grenade at the readyvery exposed to far beforebare metal deskvery high that daytrying again this timethroughout the flight ever workedseveral yards below the first surgeons
positionfiji on the spotscalable call ithas a solidit movesupscalecountry for more on itmore enemy bullets from across the
valley hanleyas he pulls back to preface grenadaquarter-mile confrontationscored russian droppingto two stepsimplies myself watersgunnery sargent keys no excuse a combat
correspondentcame down behind a rock on the opposite
side of the valleyhe and other marines have already taken
three televangelist prisonerand also nowby the recipient explosioni mean every wordthat grenade he broke the ambush moments
later the army helicopters thatoriginally alerted the marines of the
fleet taliban bring them gun battle to afinal close clashing screen eldergenomics aboutharassing her decisionchris what's going on in my lifewith the threat of losingthe company first sergeant and a
lieutenant take turns carrying thewounded marine out of the hills on their
backssearching the g_r_e_ himself wounded in
the flight leaders who seems the navycrossfor his lower sectionsafter two weeks a successful operations
and karen koh regionwith more than eighty taliban combatants
killed or captured the marines shifttheir focus westreports of coming up at the taliban
fighters have fled cordis arsenichistorynear the center of afghanistancycling village of sarong i was gone
province of afghanistanjune twenty seventhtwo thousand fourtwo p_m_a section of four caveatus rules for the villageor combined airtight armor team vehiclespart of the speaker or anywhere elsecatch section the scouting dwell on the
head of the rest of the battalionthe villagers sarong is at the end of a
bali the battalion is attempting tosweep premium enemyso the mission of the cat sections is to
move ahead and block passage out of thefar side of the villageour mission is to go inset up the initial primer on the village
for the follow on force to come throughof the committee meeting since such in
the village of the timeterrain leading to the opposite end of
the village is wrongso the leader of the cat section then
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My ReThink Interview with Amir Bar-Lev, the director of the documentary THE TILLMAN STORY, which tells the story of pro football player Pat Tillman, who quit the NFL to join the Army Rangers and the cover-up that ensued when Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
In this interview, Amir talks about why he wanted to tell Pat Tillman's story, why there was not more public outrage when it was revealed that the military's stories about Tillman and Jessica Lynch were lies, why America seems to crave a "sanitized" version of war, and what Amir's favorite movie is.
For more about THE TILLMAN STORY, visit http://www.tillmanstory.com/
For more ReThink Interviews and Reviews, visit http://rethinkreviews.net/
John Anderson, ESPN SportsCenter Anchor, Co-Host of ABC's Wipeout and Pat Tillman Foundation supporter - invites you to support the Tillman Military Scholars program.
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Chairman Waxman questions witnesses on a memo he received early on indicating that it was likely a case of fratricide.
Arizona Cardinal football player turned Army Ranger, killed in action during operation Iraqi Freedom. Tyler Griffin Reporting (2004) - www.Mindshift-Media.com
Professional football player Pat Tillman joined the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire during a gun battle. But as Erica Hill reports, the story told by the government was quite different.
ESPN Nov 2009 - Marie Tillman, the wife of former Arizona cardinal and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, speaks for the first time since her husband's death from friendly fire.
CSTV's Going West road crew stops by Arizona State and checks out Tillman Tunnel, named for ASU alum and hero Pat Tillman. For more exclusive college football news, log on to www.goingwestfootball.com
Marie Tillman and Darnell Dockett invite you to help our veterans and their families continue their education and return to work.
Text TILLMAN to 50555 to make a $10 donation to the Tillman Military Scholars program today.
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"... I don't think they are very honorable people. I know they were lying. I mean, and I think that -- you know, like, you know, Pat and I are talking about, you know, we feel that there could have been something else that happened to Pat but -- I mean, we can't prove it. Every bit of evidence has been destroyed. ... Rumsfeld, Abizaid, Myers and Brown collectively said, 'I don't know, I don't recall, I don't remember' about 82 times and no one on that panel pressed them. No one did their research. Neither faction of that committee." -- Pat Tillman's mother Mary on Larry King Live
Check it out: http://www.tillmanstory.com/
Not the only ones hungry for justice at http://www.michaelmoore.com
