Gold star mother whose hero son died in Afghanistan shares her anguish as Taliban retakes county
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temperatures, and most damning no officer visited wanat until the day before the attack. the findings approved by then-commanding general david petraeus should have ended the careers of three commanders that brostrom blamed but the army had something else in mind you were told to soften this to the united states army. and that s exactly what happened here. drew, one of the things you have to wonder when you see this harrowing tale is would the investigation whose story you re going to tell us more about in a minute, would this investigation have even happened if one of the fathers of one of the killed soldiers had not been in the army for 30 years. it s hard for me to say if that would have not happened. certainly lieutenant colonel
or chain of command derelict of duties. they put a lot of blame on your son. yes, they did. reporter: in what is now official army history, the army largely blamed platoon leader lieutenant jonathan brostrom for the deaths. the report says he picked a poor location for the observation post and failed to use afghan security forces as lookouts. it s a lot easier to blame a dead second lieutenant than it is the chain of command. so drew, this just begs the question now what? what recourse do the family members have some what pushback is possible this is there an inspector general that is looking at this? congressional committees? what can people do? reporter: certainly dave brostrom has asked for help with the combat studies institute but
questions i would imagine you re asking not as a dad but a lieutenant colonel. it was my experience coming out, but i was also concerned about the situation. you see, dave brostrom is not just the father of a soldier, for 30 years he was a soldier. it turns out the retired lieutenant colonel had good reason to worry. basically the army sent these guys up there and said do the best you can they did. they underestimated the enemy. i guess they hoped that everything would go right. everything went wrong. everything went wrong. we re on the left-hand side. we ll look for the green smoke and put some [ bleep ] down. we got the notification on the 13th of july that he d been killed that same day. you know, it just kind of it all came together. i said you know, i wonder if he was doing this mission he was talking about. and he was.
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