lost on the map stumbled across and thought that he and his guys were axes and killed lieutenant perley and john daly understood at the scene as cities he got out of his bradley fighting vehicle that he had ordered his gunner to open fire and that the casualties were records he'd only knew was friendly fire he knew he did it. and yet the casualty officers went back and they reported to the family that their head son had died in an encounter with a republican guard it was just made up out of whole cloth. it was only when they got back to saudi arabia that the soldiers had access to phones and field as best friends of the unit called the family and told them what really happened to. the two soldiers the illicit guys who called fielder's family told their unit commander. low ranking officer and they wouldn't say who they were afraid of getting in trouble as a lieutenant or a captain. what they told the family and he told them to shut up that if they said anything more they'd be court martialled. that this was way above their pay grade and they'd better not do it again despite the family's