The Army blew up its own you-could-be-this-guy role model in a friendly fire incident, covers up the details of his death, and then wonders why his parents are having a fit?
“After it happened, all the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this,” the father said. “They purposely interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a handbasket if the truth about his death got out. They blew up their poster boy.”
Gee, I wonder why recruitment is down…