Accidents happen in war, part of the "game". I was in the Army over 30 years ago. These parents have no clue. Their willingness to join the dark side show they aren't made of any "steel". I hope they are happy helping our enemies.
The Army didn't exactly knock itself out getting the truth out as quickly as they could.
Very true. There are mistakes made in every organization especially when starting a new effort in an unknown area. There is a learning curve in every business, government, and military organization during which a lot of mistakes are made at the beginning and progressively fewer mistakes are made as the organization learns its new mission. I've worked on a few software development projects that were absolute disasters in their early stages. The tragedy in Tillman's case is that part of the business of the US Army is firing heavy weapons and killing the enemy, and when a mistake is made during this activity then the wrong people sometimes get killed.
The same kind of mistakes happen countless times every day in corporate America, but killing is not part of their business and so the mistakes are corrected without any bloodshed. A number of mistakes were made that contributed to Tillman's accidental death, but I don't view any of them as negligence. The key error appears to be the decision to split up Tillman's platoon while they were moving through unfamiliar territory. I'm sure his CO would give anything to change that fateful decision, but his CO was new to Afghanistan too and never expected such a disastrous result from this decision. I blame the whole thing on bin Laden and the Taliban.
Yeah, it made alot of sense for our country to glamorize his death with lies and propaganda. The family's son is dead and now they know the truth.
But, yeah, they have joined the "dark side" in your opinion and aren't made of "steel".
This isn't "Rambo".
I remember having people die in training exercises. Every year we lost a few – usually generator operators, mechanics and truck drivers.