The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.
If you don’t want them to do that, don’t send them.
Send pajama boys.
“When it absolutely positively must be destroyed overnight. Navy SEALS.”
I don’t know about the other 3 but he should have been given an oral reprimand, nothing else.
During WWII, my Father’s battalion commander caught Daddy trading a German kid, candy for eggs. Lt. Col. Scott gave him a dressing down but it did not go on his record.
For some reason, eggs were forbidden because they could be booby trapped somehow.
This on RADM Green's shoulders. It was his vindictive pursuit of Gallagher that caused this whole mess. As critical as I have been of RADM Green, he is a SEAL, a badass and a killer. He has no problem killing the bad guys, it's just he screwed the pooch in his approach to changing the culture of the SEALs to one with a more polished and professional military image. He let his ego and desire for retribution cloud his judgement, and brought discredit on himself and the men he is supposed to lead.
Spencer made a bad mistake when he insinuated that a tweet from the President did not carry the weight of an official order. The message the remainder of the military got is that if Trump sends a message by pony express, telegraph, carrier pigeon or twitter, they better do what it says without inserting their own comments.
RADM Green should be packing his seabag.
“Gen. Mattis and Mr. West draw a sharp line between tactical leadership—in which risk-taking and front-line initiative are vital—and strategic leadership, which, if left to its own devices, breeds caution and groupthink. At the lower levels, the authors advise, “Leave the ‘how’ to your subordinates, who must be trained and rewarded for exercising initiative.” A commander “must be tolerant of mistakes. If the risk takers are punished, then you will retain in your ranks only the risk averse.”
Book Review: Learning to Lead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-learning-to-lead-11574443199
The military wants to persecute and prosecute soldiers for doing their jobs. Bowe Bergdahl, deserter and murder, is free as a bird: “dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank, and fined $1,000 per month from his pay for ten months, with no prison time.”
Anyone who doesn’t recognize the problem here is retarded.
Back in the day SEALs were recruited from the fleet and came with all different rates. Now that SEAL is a rate by itself, stripping a rate from a petty officer or chief petty officer would seem to be a career-ender.
I was just wondering what the next step would have been had the review board actually taken Chief Gallagher’s Trident?