A report described in The Washington Post on May 4, 2005, prepared at the request of Tillman’s family by Brigadier General Gary M. Jones, revealed that in the days immediately following Tillman’s death, Army investigators were aware that Tillman had been killed by friendly fire, shot three times in the head at less than 10 yards away, according to Army doctors.
Jones reported that members of Tillman’s unit burned his body armor and uniform in an apparent attempt to hide that he was killed by friendly fire. 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.”
Tillman’s family was not informed of the finding that he was killed by friendly fire until weeks after his memorial service, although at least some senior Army officers knew prior to the service.
Tillman’s diary was never returned to his family, and its whereabouts were unknown to them, according to his father.[
On April 24, 2007, Specialist Bryan O’Neal, the last soldier known to see Pat Tillman alive, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that his superiors warned him not to divulge information that a fellow soldier killed Tillman, especially to the Tillman family. Later, Pat Tillman’s brother, Kevin Tillman, who was also in the convoy traveling behind his brother at the time of the 2004 incident in Afghanistan but did not witness it, testified that the military tried to spin his brother’s death to deflect attention from emerging failings in the Afghan war.
On July 13, 2007, Henry Waxman and Tom Davis, the leading members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, revealed that the Bush administration and the Pentagon had withheld key documents relating to Tillman’s death and denied any new document release request from Congress citing executive privilege.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman
But it was just an accident! Definitely not our poster boy ultimate recruiting tool has soured on the reality of the war he’s fighting in.
“When you see the Taliban come over the horizon you open fire”
“Okay so when I see Pat Tillman come over the horizon I shoot him”
“NO NO NO!”
