Military Career
Tillman and his more well-known brother Pat (a former NFL player) enlisted together on 31 May 2002, completed training and selection for the elite United States Army Rangers in late 2002, and were assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion in Fort Lewis, Washington. Both Pat and Kevin Tillman were deployed to South West Asia as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
In late 2004, Tillman graduated from Sniper School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
On April 24, 2007, Pete Geren, acting secretary of the Army stated "We as an Army failed in our duty to the Tillman family, the duty we owe to all the families of our fallen soldiers: Give them the truth, the best we know it, as fast as we can."
In July 2005, fulfilling his 3-year enlistment, Tillman was honorably discharged from the Army.
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