[Baynative]

I love my President!

[Simon Foxx]

Can I freaking love this man any more than I already do??

WELL DONE MR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Seruzawa]

Eff a buncha REMFs.

[tennmountainman]

Will the Navy obey his direct order?

[Midwesterner53]

It’s the commanders who authorized the awards who should be punished for several reasons: They gave awards to Naval Officers,(Lawyers), who failed on all counts except one minor charge,they showed their undue command influence with these awards and they showed they really wanted the defendant to go to prison for a long time and had decided his guilt before any trial. (Retired Army Officer)

[Simon Foxx]

Speaking as a former (USAF) Jag officer with some insight into the military law culture, I think that what the president is doing here is firing a "shot across the bow" of the entire JAG system in all of the services.

It has nothing per se to do with the officers who prosecuted this case and EVERYTHING to do with putting the military JAG establishment on notice that making their rank on the hides of the fighting men and women who are actually in combat is no longer looked at favorably.

The President is the 1800-lb gorilla over all the military and bad publicity/criticism from the C-in-C is something that the Jag departments are VERY sensitive to ....

[Ancesthntr]

Lawyers in the Armed Forces shouldn’t get ANY medals, except for the “I was there” kind of medals.

Oh, I’m a lawyer. Believe me, lawyers don’t deserve any medals from the armed forces - that should be reserved for those people who do something more heroic than worry about getting paper cuts or breaking a nail trying to unstaple a document.

[Taxman]

Taxman Bravo Zulu, POTUS!

[piasa]

Interesting...one of the defense lawyers is a personal attny of Trump.

[piasa]

This month in San Diego, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s defense team exposed tons of prosecutorial corruption, revealing that Navy prosecutors spied on defense lawyers. (Gallagher is on trial for the “murder” of an Islamic State terrorist.) They made a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. Defense attorney Tim Parlatore also exposed Navy criminal investigators in the process.
When hauled before the military judge to explain the alleged spying, three Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents retreated like cowards and refused to testify. Imagine that! criminal investigators sworn to uphold the Constitution decided to hide behind the Fifth Amendment to cover their own tracks. -——
Don Brown: It’s time for Trump to clean out corruption in the military justice system
Fox News ^ | June 14, 2019 | Don Brown

[piytar]

MORE WINNING!!! THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP! (Yeah, know I’m shouting, but this deserves a shout. Knew people who knew the wrongfully prosecuted SEAL.)

[JoeFromSidney]

I worked with JAGs several times while on active duty, including when I served on a court martial. I had a great deal of respect for them. All the ones I knew did their jobs well, and on several occasions kept me out of legal trouble regarding research contracts. I have no doubt there were some bad apples among them, but I never encountered any.