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Analog, manslaughter is homocide, which is usually defined as one person killing another. Killing someone during combat would qualify as homocide, albeit justified. The title is completely accurate, although it is at best vague.
Now that I've removed that particular gramitical stick from my own ass, I've read a lot about this incident and I have to say that I'm not surprised that this is finally happening. The version I have is that the team that was assisting Tillman's didn't follow basic protocol to avoid friendly fire. There was a long story in the NY Times 5 or 6 months ago, but it's been archived now so I can't link to it.
Regardless of your political leanings, Pat Tillman did a very courageous and admirable thing by walking away from a multimillion dollar contract to join up as a private right after 9/11. Up until the Korean War, he probably could have negotiated himself a commission as a captain at least, and I'll bet he probably could have pressured the Army for the opportunity for some sort of special circumstance commission if he had really wanted to. The fact that he did it the way that he did speaks volumes about the man's principles.
That said, the Army is doing their usual end run around the truth in a situation where they're going to be seen in a negative light. It's pretty much business as usual, and I'm sure that there's some brass collectively shitting their pants right now for fear of bad publicity driving down recruitment.
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