Army Fake Medals

The Tillman fiasco that occured in Afghanistan (the former footbsll player) is back in the news again.
The gist of it is that his group engaged the enemy and he was killed by enemy fire, supposedly. Due to his great prominence as a football player, he was awarded a medal for whatever it was he really did.
However within hours most army senior enlisted and officers knew it was not the enemy who killed Tillman, but another group of American soldiers.
Nevertheless, it was covered up, great tributes were written for the family and public consumption, and Tillman was buried.
Within weeks however, so many people knew about the mistake that it came out for public consumption.
It is hard to believe that so many army types would go along with such a thing for two minutes but they did. It certainly isn't the first time such a thing has happened. Many of similar circumstance happened in WWII, Viet Nam, and Korea. Some were caught in Viet Nam and Korea, but few in WWII. Why? Because we were winning!
The Army has now decided to stop at a three star general as to how far
up the lader the truth was known. He will probably be changed to two stars and his pension reduced some for helping with the cover-up.
I find it impossible to believe that the Pentagon didn't know one word of this until the funeral was over!
Heroes were needed badly and they found one.
For all I know, Sp. Tillman was a hero, unknowingly firing on his own, at first, until he was shot. But that ismnot what this is about, is it?
The last senior officer (four-star) who cheated on heroism killed himself. He was Navy.

Calling BS on dollar

Submitted by RetiredArmyMAJ on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 10:16am.

Most days I ignore the the ramblings of this poster, the majority of them don't make sense. I challenge dollar to post a link to support his claim that:

" within hours most army senior enlisted and officers knew it was not the enemy who killed Tillman, but another group of American soldiers."

He states, "I find it impossible to believe that the Pentagon didn't know one word of this until the funeral was over!" that may be because the unit tried to cover it up. They shouldn't have but they did.

As far as his accusation that "Some were caught in Viet Nam and Korea, but few in WWII. Why? Because we were winning!" I submit another possiblity. Maybe the embedded reporters and media were supporting our goals and saw the exposure of mistakes as damaging to morale. That might explain why Congress did not hold investigations about the intelligence failure at the Battle of the Bulge.

Far more prevelant are the fakers that claim military service , who never served a day. The book "Stolen Valor" will make your blood boil.

To sum it up, "For all I know" sure isn't very far in dollar's case. Let the dead lie, dredging up mistakes like this one does nothing to help, but then again when was that ever a concern for short changed.
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Major: confusing

Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 12:15pm.

You want a link, do you? I thought about finding you a few, but I think I'll let the congressional witnesses tell you in the coming days.
Are you suggesting that devious behaviour (which you call "mistakes") is all right to cover up to keep some soldier from having bad morale? My recollection of service time is that we were ticked off about someone covering up stuff! Since there is no one to complain to in the army who wants to hear it, the press is the only way.
I think maybe Tillman and family would like to know exactly what happened---it does help the recurrence.

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