…Battlefield.
"When, recently, I asked a helicopter pilot friend of mine what he thought about Brian Williams, the venerable NBC nightly news anchor, suspended after an apparent lie about his helicopter being forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, he couldn't believe it.
"Why would you freaking lie about something like that?" the pilot asked.
He liked Brian Williams, even nodded off to sleep on his last deployment to Afghanistan while listening to the NBC nightly news podcast. I was more cynical. In 2003, who wasn't lying about the war, and why wouldn't you? There were no real consequences for the liars—then or now—and so I kept thinking about it.
There is one R.P.G. story I know that is incredible and all true. I first heard about it as a soldier in Afghanistan in 2006, when this happened to another company in my battalion. There's some lying in this tale. Not all soldiers are saints. But the lying here is done to save a life, rather than aggrandize or pad a life story. It's been reported before, but I thought it worth revisiting in the weeks after the Williams scandal…"
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