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Anguished SEALs Recall Chief as 'Evil' and 'Toxic'
New York Times via Yoohoo News ^ | 12/27/2019 | Not Attributed

Posted on 12/27/2019 7:47:04 AM PST by Menehune56

Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott, a medic in the platoon, told the investigators: “You could tell he was perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving.” Such dire descriptions of Gallagher, who had eight combat deployments and sometimes went by the nickname Blade, are in marked contrast to Trump’s portrayal of him at a recent political rally in Florida as one of “our great fighters.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alinsky; coreyscott; craigmiller; davephilipps; eddiegallagher; fakenews; hitpiece; joshuavriens; liars; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyt; vriens
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To: Lysandru

Good post. Thoughtful questions.

I’m also interested in knowing if the NYT is misusing the term MEDIC for a Navy Corpsman.


61 posted on 12/27/2019 9:19:38 AM PST by PsyCon
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To: Menehune56

Question: Do SEALS in combat have to make split second decisions with the aim of staying alive and keeping others alive? Yes.

Question: Do those they are fighting want them dead? Yes

Question: Does killing more of those bad guys mean the SEALS get to stay alive longer? Yes

Question: Does all this take place in seconds? Yes

So Shut Up Medic.


62 posted on 12/27/2019 9:20:09 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Well...could we send Eddie in there to do the job??????????????


63 posted on 12/27/2019 9:21:16 AM PST by tiki
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To: Lysandru

Happened to my unit on our first deployment to Iraq. Took our tanks away gave us hummers and retrained us as motorized infantry.


64 posted on 12/27/2019 9:24:27 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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To: EEGator

The Doc is a SEAL just like the rest of them.


65 posted on 12/27/2019 9:30:53 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Mathews

I know, just a potentially different mind set.
He’s certainly tougher than I am, but I don’t get ratting on him. It’s not even proof, just an opinion.


66 posted on 12/27/2019 9:34:56 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Menehune56

The guy deployed eight times so I’m willing to give him leeway. The thing that bothers me though is that (according to the article) out of a 22 man platoon 7 testified against him. Two testified that they never saw him do anything wrong and 13 refused to cooperate. If those 7 really were making everything up wouldn’t you think 13 that refused to cooperate would have said something to protect Gallagher from false accusations?


67 posted on 12/27/2019 9:37:45 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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To: 2banana

“Oh cool, the medic wants to talk about war and tactics.”

The last person I would want advice on how to fight a war is a medic.

Like asking a janitor how a company should be run.


68 posted on 12/27/2019 9:50:18 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Beagle8U

That’s the quote I was thinking about.


69 posted on 12/27/2019 9:51:41 AM PST by Citizen Soldier
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To: vetvetdoug

They had film and testimony from his team on Today news. They even put warnings up about some of the film where Gallagher pushed the terrorist down. They left out so much info like Gallagher was found guilty of posing with a corpse but failed to mention his team did as well. Today show totally eviscerated Gallagher.


70 posted on 12/27/2019 9:54:47 AM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: 2banana

Medics in SF outfits are, well, to put bluntly, SF warriors. They know a thing or two about such topics.


71 posted on 12/27/2019 9:56:20 AM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Menehune56

If Chief Gallagher was such a problem... fire him. There’s no need to work-up fake charges, pull his Trident and do those sorts of things. But I notice that all-to-often that is exactly how the Left rolls in this country. They destroy somebody in the process of getting a desirable (for them) political outcome.


72 posted on 12/27/2019 9:57:12 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: EEGator

Just based off my past experience... the friggin’ docs are the most sadistic MFers around.


73 posted on 12/27/2019 9:59:53 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Mathews

LOL, then I defer to your opinion.


74 posted on 12/27/2019 10:01:44 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Aevery_Freeman

In fact most members of seal team 7 couldn’t stand the unethical Gallagher and no amount of knee jerk responses by arm chair warriors will turn him into anything but the murderer of prisoner of war that he was. Only the stupid navy prosecutors who offered immunity to a medic who then claimed that he murdered the prisoner saved him.

The Navy was right to want to strip him of his seal status. He is and was a disgrace to the warrior class. Only a guy like mr trump who has never been in the military and has not been trained in the Laws of war would turn a dirtbag into a hero.

Actual warriors deplore Gallagher and no amount of arm chair website hero’s can defeat that fact so please save all the vitriol that seems to go with killing the messenger. There is a reason his shipmates testified against him and now are still giving press statements about what a dirtbag he is.


75 posted on 12/27/2019 10:05:53 AM PST by Okeydoker
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To: aquila48

“The last person I would want advice on how to fight a war is a medic.”

I’m sure that I will be corrected if I’m wrong, but I think we can safely assume that the “medic” is a trained SEAL operator first — then goes onto learn his specialty (combat medicine) along with Army Rangers, USAF PJ’s and others at Ft. Bragg.


76 posted on 12/27/2019 10:09:00 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: silverleaf

I did one tour in Afghanistan, almost 100% on a FOB. I cannot imagine 8 tours in the field...


77 posted on 12/27/2019 10:11:56 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Menehune56

“You could tell he was perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving.”

That’s exactly who I want in my foxhole!


78 posted on 12/27/2019 10:21:27 AM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: Menehune56

A hit piece on Eddie Gallagher. Just what we expect from the NYT. Fiction dressed up as the truth.


79 posted on 12/27/2019 10:25:14 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Engedi

Where and how did NBC get the footage? Is it public property? Doesn’t it offend the personal rights of Chief Gallagher? I’ve never heard of testimony and film from a military court being released to the MSM.


80 posted on 12/27/2019 10:25:35 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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