Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of Pat Tillman PART 5(the end)

Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of United States Army Ranger Pat Tillman in friendly fire incident.

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for the wholerightfully yoursorthodoxboth ranger school the most rolling sixty one daysthat anybodyany branch of the service billsa lot of guys washed out he did the whole bill became a certified airbornegung-ho toready to go onin the early spring of two thousand four he finds himself in afghanistan with thesecond battalion of the seventy-fifth ranger regimentwas started in pakistanpushed a lot of the taliban loyalists the al-qaedaout of western pakistan over into the eastern aftergrilled mountainous terrain the case for bin laden is hanginghumans usehas been busily flushing alcatelhas brought him into this regionfiring at taliban fighters hearing enemy ralphs theresoon one of the vehicles causeambush hellomakes it out of the killzonethe rangers in the vehicle spotty human fore memory jump aheadthe incidentpeople say they have thought he was a talentinstead it's the friendly afghan soldiers that accompany corporal tillmanand the other american to the richhelen breakvery chaotic situationpart of a painyou want to billtakes the life of the thirty afghanpatch and the other ranger begin waving their arms and screaming friendliescease-fire cease-firemissing the whole thingleader said he couldn't hear the americans on the richcontinue firing until nowtillman puffs of smoke grenades to signal that there are rangers at hisposition not enemy combatantsfiring from the home team finally stops momentarilyat this point tillman and the other ranger believe the danger has passedthey stand out from behind the rocks that have been protecting themthe rangers in the vehicle below will say after the incident that they thoughtthe smoke in a different elements position must have come from an enemymortar roundonce againopens firethe soldier next to tillman immediately hits the groundbegins to playbut it's too late for pat himselfthere is pain in his voice as he once again screens for the shooters to ceasefirehis voice and is going topatent tillman is deadpatrick daniel tillman is monitored and a memorial service in san josecaliforniabarney sentencing thousand fourhere this story technical told aboutsummer release moneysomewhat foreignyou can't paint more alive godfor service on a dead soldierfrom a disasterhas also receives another recognition the silver star with combat v_'s for hisselfless actions in afghanistanthe u_s_ army is late in announcing that the former football player's deaths wasa result of friendlythe matter is still under reviewto determine if the army engaged in intention deceptionthe insistence of the tillmanthere is a criminal probe underwayto determine if any of the soldiers who fired on tillman are guilty of negligenthomicidethe lost of friendly fire of a remarkable patriot like petrolfor his fellow servicementhe only solace is that his loss helps fueled their passionongoing processal-qaeda taliban terrorists in afghanistanon some of the unluckymorrow marley made at largeand the taliban movement is emerging as a threat

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