Outside the Lines-Pat Tillman

[Randall]

Anyone watchng this? You should Tivo it if missed.

 

They split up Tillman's unit after a Humvee broke down. The unit strongly disagreed but with a unit with mostly no experience in action I wish they would have listened.

[#40]

VERY interesting hearing the first hand account from the guys involved. So very sad that they all have to live with it. well done by espn.

[soco]

Man those guys have balls . all of those people in the military are HEROS .good luck to them all

[TC_Ute]

Excellent piece by Bob Ley and ESPN. As mentioned above and emphasized by those interviewed in the story, it sounds like it was a VERY bad decision by a superior on the other end of a radio to split up the unit that was the root of the cause in this situation. A horrible situation all around. It still amazes me what Tillman did and it still pisses me off how he died.

[Randall]

Excellent piece by Bob Ley and ESPN. As mentioned above and emphasized by those interviewed in the story, it sounds like it was a VERY bad decision by a superior on the other end of a radio to split up the unit that was the root of the cause in this situation. A horrible situation all around. It still amazes me what Tillman did and it still pisses me off how he died.

 

 

 

Me too. Since they were inexperienced they saw that weapon his Afghani mate had and assumed he was the enemy(who were firing on the second unit). They didn't observe Tillmans efforts to say he was their mate.

 

Very sad and weird situation.