I'm not clear on whether the US soldiers burned it afterwards to try and hide something?
They burned his uniform clearly for a cover up... By doing such the family would not see the amount of bullet holes in this man to include the size of the bullet holes (50 .cal is what i think killed him..) which family then would clearly identify as fraticide.. (clothing has only blood stain and holes... very easy to identify what happened... a body is much harder to tell without medical training)
when poster boy took the fall from his own platoon thats a huge blow.. (rangers lead the way i guess) on top of this his brother (who was armed and in the same unit, different platoons though) was not notified what really happened till much later.. go figure, he most likely would have lock and loaded considering the circumstances..(cluster**** command)
Pat got screwed plain and simple, mistakes happen but what happend after was no mistake..
If you read the whole story on this guy what grinds me is that his LT made the right call by challenging his orders but he was overruled so that someone would look good on their OER for getting them to a non existant objective with no tactical value considering the lighting conditions... instead of reporting a delay to malfunctioning equipment.. (humvee)
pathetic..
DoctorYo