Posted on 11/20/2019 6:12:50 AM PST by Enlightened1
A top Navy SEAL officer is defying President Donald Trump’s defense of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher by sending his controversial case to a military review board which could result in his ultimate expulsion from the SEALs.
On November 15 Trump reversed the demotion of Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who acquitted of murder this summer, and restored his title of Chief Petty Officer. The president also pardoned two other officers jailed for war crimes as well.
Trump’s grant of executive clemency has been harshly criticized over violations of international humanitarian law.
Despite the Commander in Chief's pardon, Rear Admiral Collin Green, the head of the Navy Special Warfare Command, is taking the matter before a military board.
'This is a review of their suitability to be a SEAL,' an unnamed Navy officer said to CBS News, adding the review has the backing of both the secretary of the Navy and the chief of Naval Operations.
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Quickest ruling I’ve ever seen- Just heard it from Bret Baer.
Gallagher will NOT be removed from the SEALS.
I have to post a correction to my response-
regarding your R/T 524 comment, being so dated I confused that receiver/transmitter component set of the PRC/VRC family of analog single channel legacy radios with the my nemesis as a young grunt- setting up the OE/254 antenna set by myself. But you certainly did make me jog done memory lane. Hammelburg, June 84 while awaiting transition to M2 BFVs ( from a paratrooper to a mech infantryman, not by choice). SSG John Miller was my SL, a real decent NCO and mentor Nam Vet.
Then along came SINCGARS.
Anyway.
The M1078 FMTV system was still a few years down the road.
And it looks like PDJT has said FU back. Unconventional, but you know - the Unitary Executive and all.
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