Posted on 10/29/2017 10:19:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
No one has been charged in Sergeant Melgar’s death, which a military medical examiner ruled to be “a homicide by asphyxiation,” or strangulation, said three military officials briefed on the autopsy results. The two Navy SEALs, who have not been identified, were flown out of Mali shortly after the episode and were placed on administrative leave.
The biggest unanswered question is why Sergeant Melgar was killed. “N.C.I.S. does not discuss the details of ongoing investigations,” Ed Buice, the agency’s spokesman, said in an email, confirming that his service had taken over the case on Sept. 25.
Neither the Army nor the military’s Africa Command issued a statement about Sergeant Melgar’s death, not even after investigators changed their description of the two SEALs from “witnesses” to “persons of interest,” meaning the authorities were trying to determine what the commandos knew about the death and if they were involved. The uncertainty has left soldiers in the tight-knit Green Beret community to speculate wildly about any number of possible motives, from whether it was a personal dispute among housemates gone horribly wrong to whether Sergeant Melgar had stumbled upon some illicit activity the SEALs were involved in, and they silenced him, according to interviews with troops and their families. Other officials briefed on the inquiry said they had heard no suggestion that the Navy commandos had been doing anything illegal.
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“Melgar was the 34-year-old Afghanistan veteran who joined the army in 2012 and assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group – the same unit of soldiers that was attacked by Islamic militants in Niger on October 4 and resulted in the deaths of four soldiers.”
This one is just flat out weird
There's no such thing in the military.
If the reporter can't get that right, all of this story is suspect.
You are correct. Here is the DoD Instruction. See paragraph 6.
http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/132706p.pdf
Yep - not making a judgement, just airing the two likeliest seeming scenarios if they did it.
People in Special Olympics kill each other?
I figured it was a gay love triangle but we’ll never know.
Maybe. In those situations, usually someone takes a spill, knocks their head, and that's what does them in. This guy was "asphyxiated," so I'm guessing strangled. Maybe one guy tried to render the other guy unconscious with a choke-hold and went too far. But there was two of them. Maybe they were after something or doing something and didn't want to be identified.
It’s a mystery, that’s for sure.
A story now up on Drudge says that the SEALs were skimming money used to pay informants, the SF soldier discovered it, and refused a cut. There was a confrontation and that’s when he was assaulted and asphyxiated. They and another SF guy took him to a hospital and the SEALs said the man had been drinking. Autopsy revealed no alcohol, he was apparently a tee-totaler, and he had sent e-mails home about difficulties with the SEALs. The e-mails were shared with investigators and now the two SEALs are in custody.
Correction: The two SEALs are still on “administrative leave.”
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