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 and light stayed there to point out his position because when they got to him there was a faint heart beat. so the whole idea of brotherhood an author and then and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context that has absolutely no place. so he goes silent office guys in there trying to assess where people are assess what the situation is and he's silent dave is out there for. many minutes vick eighty. yeah dying. 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 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

up to time five of his memory 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 and 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 a very little star cover very little moonlight stayed there to point out his position because when they got to him there was a faint heart beat. so the whole idea of brotherhood an author and then and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. so he goes silent of these guys and they're trying to assess where people are assess what the situation is and he's silent dave is out there for. ten many minutes vec eighty. yeah dying. there's precious minutes spent trying to find him they don't know where he is. when they. and they they work 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 leaded where his men were. with the new information

then 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 unaccounted for and lieutenant hansen 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 star cover very little moonlight and stayed there to point out his position because when they got to him there was a faint heart beat. so the whole idea of brotherhood an author and then and camaraderie in this sense it was it in this context that has absolutely no place. so he goes silent of these guys and they're trying to assess where people are assess what the situation is and he's silent dave is out there for . many minutes vick eighty. yeah dying. there's precious minutes spent trying to find him they don't kno

dave was mistakenly shot by lieutenant hanson 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 as 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 son. 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 unaccounted for and lieutenant hansen 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 star cover very little moonlight stayed there to point out his position because when they got to him there was a faint heart beat. so

then 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 unaccounted for and lieutenant hansen took the only active radio. the one guy who has any means of communication has got on a chopper and 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 very little store cover very little moonlight stayed there to point out his position because when they got to him there was a faint heart beat. so the whole idea of brotherhood an author and then and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. so he goes silent of these guys and they're trying to go. assess where people are assess what the situation is and he's silent dave is out there for. many minutes vec eighty. yeah dying. there's precious minutes spent trying to find him they don't know where

in hopes of appeasing the sheriff family colonel mcbride wrote a scathing reprimand of lieutenant hanson. colonel mcbride writes you are hereby reprimanded for failing to exercise adequate command and control over your platoon your conduct contributed to rectally 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 was the final letter 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 me gathered documents and video for a lead story army officials bega

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 doug 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 sons' 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 list of men who had vital information about the night that their boys