BFD. Millions of people quit, resign or are fired every day.
Trump said, “Resign you insubordinate fool or I will fire you.”
The pompous perfumed prince of the periwinkles, realizing that if he was fired by Trump, his retirement would be computed at the rate of a Rear **** AH-OO-GAH *** Admiral (Upper Half) rather than as an Admiral, decided to retire.
What caused this?
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Remember the reports about parties including illegal drugs becoming rampant among the SEALs?
That was *all* under this guy’s watch. And the SEAL team leader that was court martialed and this “commander” refused to reinstate came about because the team was pissed off that the team leader wouldn’t let them do drug parties too.
He crossed the President and he lost. Good bye.
Yawn - if he doesn’t like his commanding officer (the President of the United States) he SHOULD RESIGN. I hope he takes other disgruntled ego maniacs with him...
Gallagher was cleared of murder when the state's witness for the prosecution who had transactional immunity confessed that he was the one who killed the mohammedan.
So they decided to go after him on "taking a picture with a corpus." He did do that so they thought it was an easy win.
Little problem, he was not the only one in the picture and they were not going after those guys. This is very much against the rules. You go after all or none.
Trump finally got tired of this persecution and pardoned Gallagher.
A pardon means the slate is wiped clean.
All titles and honors are restored. This guy did not want to do that. He wanted to kick Gallagher out of the SEALS and take his trident. It was a petty little response from a petty little man.
So, since every military officer serves at the pleasure of the president he was told to resign.
Ok. The good thing about the Navy is they have succession plans.
The sun will rise in the morning.