Posted on 03/27/2016 10:07:15 PM PDT by Nachum
The career death of Rear Adm. Brian Losey, the Navy SEAL leader being forced to retire after his promotion was blocked in the Senate, marks the most public punishment ever at the top rank of the elite SEALs, who are known for running below the radar with their combat missions and internal business.
Even more tension between Congress and the SEALs may be looming. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, said this week that he will oppose the nomination of Losey's replacement, Rear Adm. Tim Szymanski.
Hunter told The San Diego Union-Tribune that he has concerns about the incoming SEAL commander's past performance on contracting, training and acquisitions. He didn't elaborate on the alleged problems.
Szymanski couldn't be reached for comment Friday.
Losey, who leads the Coronado-based Naval Special Warfare Command, was nominated for a second star in 2011. Then the Pentagon's inspector general spent multiple years investigating him on complaints of retaliation when he was serving in Europe -- and eventually found wrongdoing. But Navy leaders disagreed with that conclusion and were set to give Losey his long-delayed promotion before the Senate intervened.
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Stalin purged his generals and admirals too.
How many Freepers will bother to actually read the article before assuming
Could the next President reverse this? Or is the decision purely one from the military justice system?
Seems that he is accused of punishing subordinates for whistleblowing, but I’m not exactly sure what they were accusing him of doing in the first place.
One can never tell about these things. I was going to be able to make it back home for the birth of my son because we were going to make a port call in Bremerhaven, Germany. But at the last minute, the Development Group cancelled that and had us head home via Halifax, Nova Soctia. My son was born while we made “going home turns” under the North Atlantic.
It turned out one of the DEVGRU senior officers had a girl friend in Halifax that he wanted to visit, and we were the excuse for his official trip. We also found out from several of our wives that he had made moves on them while we were gone.
Later, when he moved to command the Naval Facility where I worked, as a civilian, he brought the same girl friend from Canada to do “psychological” studies of the work force, so I got to meet her. He must have caught the attention of someone up the chain, because NCIS raided his office one weekend and cut open his office safe. Bye Bye.
So one can never tell about these guys. Sometimes they get full of themselves. This one does seem a little messy. Good thing Rear Adm. Brian Losey has a photographic memory, the book should be interesting. ;-)
For later research
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Someone filed an anonymous complaint with the inspector general alleging that Losey had improperly sought a government-paid plane ticket for his adult daughter when his family relocated to Germany.In fact, Losey had paid for the plane ticket himself, and the complaint was soon dismissed. But enraged by what he saw as an act of disloyalty, the admiral became determined to find out who had reported him, according to the inspector general reports.
The .gov snitch culture just boggles the mind. Compare Hillary Clinton's private email server, Lois Lerner's dealing out confidential taxpayer files like they were chips at a backroom card game, and Jon Corzine's commingling of investor funds to the tune of a billion plus.
"Seeking a government-paid plane ticket for an adult daughter" is MORE serious than these BLATANT FELONIES.
Can I get a WTF??!!???!
Especially The chain of events started in June 2011 in Germany, where Losey was assigned to lead the special-operations component responsible for Africa.
Official accounts show the timing was crucial because turmoil in Libya and elsewhere meant the command's once-relaxed atmosphere -- some have called it the "wine-and-cheese circuit" -- was about to change. In fact, Losey had to testify before congressional committees about his decisions during the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, where insurgents waged an offensive against a CIA base and the US consulate building there. Four Americans died in that incident, including three with ties to San Diego County.
Three employees -- one military, two civilian -- filed whistleblower complaints against Losey starting in 2011 for allegedly seeking to punish them. Losey had removed his chief of staff and two other staff members after anonymous complaints were filed ...
puts a different spin on things, and it looks like friends of the PIAPS and the WOG in the White Hut ultimately scuttled his promotion...
This was a Senate decision. He was nominated by the WH wasn’t he?
And then he killed them.
If true, does this mean it wasn’t all Hillary’s fault?
SubMareener ...This is probably not the forum for this but just wanted to say that my father was in the Pacific - WWII in a Gato class, the USS Bream .. a little over a year until the war ended. Just wanted to brag on him a bit :)
Sounds like he was a little full of himself. Make that a lot.
Kinda reminds me a lot of that nutty woman surface warfare destroyer captain a year or two ago. Same personality type. They don’t create effective units.
Those were real submariners. You are right to be proud of your father.
Yup ..they went through depthcharge hell more than a few times...and their flag showed 12 kills, more than they got credit for unfortunately ... but he did have a great time with a few redheads in Australia :)
Good Night Sir !!
Obama is replacing all of our effective combat generals with Obama panty waists. Watch for the Navy Seals to be transformed into a community service organization!
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