was configured these two black hawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons in on this particular day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that changed the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflage and a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and

a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then finally both shooter and target aircraft we're quits with. specially designed electronic equipment something we call i. identify friend or foe and this is equipment designed specifically to prevent this type of x. and remember her. so how in the world could this happen. the helicopters were inside the no fly zone and squawking a code that coalition aircraft when they're in turkey they didn't realize that three years before the air force had changed to two different codes they only get one code they were squawking the code they always squad fifteen's or checking for that correct code and of course it's coming back sour because the f. fifteen because the helicopters are squawking the code for turkey and the f. fifteen s are looking for the code in the no fly zone because they're. what keeps me awake at night is in complex organizations like this good people highly trained

highly equipped doing what they do every day normal behavior normal organizations can actually result in terrible tragedy i would not want to subscribe to the proposition therefore that every episode of friendly fire can simply sort of be. dismissed it as an unfortunate reflection of the fog and friction of war there would be some episodes i imagine where one might say in this case the friendly fire episode was preventable. and therefore the people who failed to prevent it the people who perpetrated it ought to be held responsible ready reading. we're doing a lot of stupid over here pop never forget those words. he said we're going on a mission for a couple of days after that. but he said we're doing

a lot of stupid. and i didn't know what that meant because i had no idea what they were doing and when you look at what happened and how it happened it was stupid the army creed has x. amount of lies long in the last three or four lines one of them is i will never leave a fallen soldier or a fallen comrade essentially i will never leave a man behind and what happened here what happened that day of on the battlefield was he got left behind not by another one of his peers but by his superiors by the commanding officer on the battlefield he got left behind. around four am on january sixteenth two thousand and eight. six individuals were spotted fleeing across an open field in an attempt to evade u.s. forces. are on right now. private first class dave sherrod and seven members of the aerial

reaction force landed nearby to intercept the six individuals believed to be on are members of al qaeda. sounds like you stick. a rock through here the day after november of two the. departing the apache the aerial reaction force advanced towards a large they can also refer to as a burn where the six suspected insurgents had taken cover. and i doubt if they push push push. on again around.

when dave was a little kid. he wanted to be exactly like his dad and his dad was a football player macho and dave was not a macho kid but he wanted to be like is stad and so i think he he almost forced his own personality to be more like dad which was tough and so on the exterior at times he was very top but inside he just had a really sweet heart we just had this bond that was it was father and son but it was something way beyond father and son i i was so heavily invested in making sure that he grew up knowing he was loved beyond knowing he was loved knowing that he was just important and. secure safe.

they were so close that the points that made me jealous is as a son because i felt like i was almost living in the shadows of bubbles like dave could do wrong he was just a guy that dead once you knew you wanted to be on his side you wanted him to to like you because. he was still great guy. i feel. the aerial reaction force around of the thicket demanding that the insurgents surrender instead the insurgents opened fire in the chaos private first class danny

kinney was killed moments later special as john sixty was killed. in the midst of exploding grenades and machine gun fire specialist rafael collins private first class brandon clan staff sergeant christopher mcgraw and private first class sharon tried to maintain their positions. collins in quin later received so over stars for their heroic actions. for thirty minutes the enemy engaged the soldiers many men down as blackhawks above attempted to provide cover. but the order to really. get a good. reinforcements

finally arrived from second platoon charlie company. they quickly destroyed the last of the insurgents and moved to secure the area and locate the wounded unable to determine how many soldiers were still on the ground officers called for help from the pilots above. all of the wounded were located except private first class sherritt over the radio second platoon notified air cover they clearly not able to locate want to show. sixty six minutes after the fighting began share a badly wanted was located with a faint pulse he died on the helicopter headed for the combat support hospital

within a few days of private first class share its death the family began receiving information about the circumstances surrounding his death well yeah i believe they told us it was a it was a a fight and he was killed by a grenade fire it just seems like that's what the casualty officer told us because that's what was in the paper the casually officer came to the house and said well we think it may have been friendly fire and that was like whoa. and then i asked i said well would you have whoever is in charge over there in iraq call me up and tell me what's going on and he said i will and we got a phone call from his lieutenant colonel the next day who vehemently denied to me that it was friendly fire then i said to him would you please. tell me what happened and he told me what happened then i said would you please send me an

e-mail recounting exactly what you just told me which he did which i have. in the e-mail the lieutenant colonel wrote as dave's elements surrounded the position the enemy opened fire at very close range touching off a fierce grenade and small arms fight that resulted in the deaths of dave corporal john sigsbee and private first class danny kaye me in the next week dave was laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. it's all about misselling member lloyds banking i think that was their specialty in the u.k. was mis selling unlike barclays with their specialties life or fraud or a just b. c. their specialty is money laundering and then roll back to scour the forest there into the lake breaking and mafia whacking off their subsidiary of the global restructuring group's every bank has their own special way to commit fraud here in the u.k. if you want to get misspelling fraud definitely go to lloyd's. fratto

terrorism the nature of terrorism is becoming increasingly internationalized the local governments which may be the case in afghanistan i'm very limited and belittle to curtail that increasingly globalized spread so one how do you really strike a balance here your father has gone has not tried to brooks who was living in the past if we all start for the books he was going to go to somebody that would be peaceful if you drug. companies it's up to this but the success. of the islamic state or are you sis in the middle east is said to reward the political realities in the region the west feel colonial agenda for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with

a jihadi summer. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not so lightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth than might think. it's because one full attention in the mainstream media works side. by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. ok. you guys talk to the jokes well handled.

the army did it right that are only. four months after the incident dave and vicki received the final incident report in direct contradiction to the lieutenant colonels initial e-mail the report stated that his son had been killed by friendly fire when his commanding officer lieutenant hanson shot him believing that he was the enemy. confused by the conflicting accounts of his son's death dave reached out to private first class committee's father dog a police officer in illinois became somebody who i spent literally hours on the

telephone with and i shared this e-mail with him that had been sent to me being a cop he looked at this and instantly instantly had heartburn with and had serious issues with it after months of asking for additional information about the conflicting reports of their son's deaths and getting no answers from the army dave met with doug to me in person for the first time at a ceremony at fort campbell when we were at fort campbell and we were visiting for this memorial service we had kind of gotten to a point where we both felt like we could release it and let it go after the ceremony the two fathers were talking in one of their rooms when there was a knock at the door to him listed men who had vital information about the night that their boys were killed and of them video of the incident they did that because they were sick and tired of the way that fort campbell had treated this that their superior officer treated this and they said there was

a cover up going on. i was furious i was absolutely furious here is you know here's this organization that's supposed to protect me my son gave his life to protect me and they can't even tell me the truth they're covering up you know it was it was awful for the first time the family was able to truly begin to understand what happened that night. well it's four o'clock in the. morning there is very low visibility it's eight degrees. and our guys have we know exactly where they are but we haven't got a clue what they're in there doing as it turns out they're all sitting back to back just waiting for our guys to come in. they were told that the enemy was unarmed that we surrounded the thicket you never surround the enemy because once the firing begins you've got a circular firing squad tactically it was a nightmare. in the initial minutes of the firefight they've avoided enemy gunfire

and return fire into the thick of. i can see dave he's hugging the earth his feet are moving he's squirming trying not to be seen the rounds are going over his head it's chaotic out the field. after five minutes of fierce fighting dave attempted to reestablish his position further back. i want to be able to watch. and as he sprints backwards he is shot by his lieutenant. and the way we have figured this elf ballistically and through the autopsy reports it had to have been. extreme close range he is shot in the back the lower left buttock but he fell just feet away from the man who shot him and the man who shot him his lieutenant had to have gone. like this to do it he would have had to swallow at this kind of angle now maybe he thought it was one of the terrorists

trying to run out whatever day full speed from him just feet from him four seconds later hanson gets up and retreats even more knew early on that dave was mistakenly shot by lieutenant hansen but it wasn't until receiving the videos nearly a year later that they fully understood how the commanding officer's actions following the shooting further impacted their son's death. there's two dead there's one one on the bed two on the battlefield left who are alive and fighting and one who is dying who is still alive. then that's my side. and this guy gets on the chopper an injured in the battle lieutenant hanson boarded the first helicopter out of the zone with two badly injured soldiers he's the one guy who knows where his men would be but he left his men on the battlefield he walked. the time five of his men were on accounted for and

lieutenant hanson took the only active radio. the one guy who has any means of communication has got on a chopper left. this son of a bitch shoots my brother in the leg not intentionally because it because it was night time it was four in the morning there was fit a very little store cover very little girl and like she had stayed there to point out his position because when they got to him there was a faint heart beat. so that there's this whole idea of brotherhood and author and then and camaraderie in this sense it was and in this context it has absolutely no place. so he goes silent of these guys and they're there trying to assess where people are assess what the situation is and he's silent dave is out there for. many minutes vec eighty. yeah guy.

there's precious minutes spent trying to find him they don't know where he is. when they found him he had a pulse and they they worked c.p.r. on him till they put him on the bird so he lost precious minutes because his lieutenant left him on the battlefield and didn't apprise anybody who landed where his men were. with the new information in hand dave contacted army officials and demanded that they really examine the actions of lieutenant hanson in hopes of appeasing the sheriff family colonel mcbride wrote a scathing reprimand of lieutenant hanson in it colonel mcbride writes you are

hereby reprimanded for failing to exercise adequate commanding control over your platoon your conduct contributed directly to the death of one of your soldiers from friendly fire your mission was ill planned and poorly executed resulting in grievous consequences to the unit based on your actions i have grave doubts concerning your potential for future military service as it turns out the letter was filed locally in iraq what does it mean. it was shredded now they happened with it doesn't go past like asian nobody ever sees it and so when lieutenant hanson comes up for a promotion nobody sees this and he skates up to being captain which is what happened he gets promoted to captain that really was the final poke in the eye for us frustrated by lieutenant hansen's promotion dave contacted a former student james me a military affairs correspondent with the new york daily

news as meat gathered documents and video for a lead story army officials began to question the motives of the family. in an internal e-mail to higher ranking officers uncovered by me a public affairs officer notes that we may rapidly be reaching the point where respecting slash understanding mr sharon's grieving process becomes secondary to defending the actions of the leadership involved in this incident i've been described as a grieving father who will say anything to bring published city who will say anything i think the subtle implication there are not so with cation if you will is that i'll make up things in order to try to publicize what happened to my son because i'm so overwrought with grief just people don't take accountability for their actions. and. this i forgive them i would but i have a lot of anger in my heart in my mind towards this man for what he did and the more

i find out about the situation the more it it just it's unbelievable. you know there's a sort of old since the. soldier who gives his life for his country is a hero. and these people have given their life for their country. so there is a feeling i think i'm actually feeling the why should i burden the family complicate. things further for them i would love to believe that they're trying to protect us from the pain knowing our son's friendly fire. but just not knowing the truth causes more pain. people might think that you can take it but what you want to know is you want to know exactly what happened you vision exactly what you want a picture of the. individuals. may sometimes act in a way to cover their own. but the army is an institution i think.

generally avoid such a cover up should. we make mistakes and i think any honest person in the army understands that we make mistakes as well and good that they're . all my to sit back and judge a man in the heat of combat. and i don't know what that's like you don't know what that's like then nobody who's never been in it doesn't really have any idea you washed out the movie or whatever it happens. unfortunately it happened us. fire in his shoes i would do the same thing. illegal for justice justice for your son. are you looking for the truth. you know the the the simple things which don't seem like big things to ask for

a start to deal with the world's largest army bureaucracy. hope that justice is done and where if we get justice maybe everybody who has suffered a little bit and then even know it gets a little justice maybe the little guy wins some day.

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spent the. rest of the day if we hadn't done that we wouldn't have been home i want to go stand we don't just hold the you know people of density we don't anybody. so tell your friend to just give us a moral to your mortgage is that i'm never going to get a sense idioms and a whim one thousand got a place to live once on monday i'll be out here with my dog. this is what we do we kill people and break things. we can see something if simple as people playing a soccer game we can see individual players and if you see the ball. you can almost see his facial expression you can see is a mouth open in crying out. maybe cursed us or maybe he asked.

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