Not in public, at least. Anyone think this officer will make Captain? Not me!
Agreed, he is toast (but he knew that when he gave the order) The next “overseas contingency operation” may have a very different outcome (Maybe like ‘Desert One’) because a CO will be unwilling to act independently.
That did occur to me too. I would hope that Obama is smart enough not to make an issue of it, because it would not reflect well on him if it came out. He would be stupid to take vengeance on some relatively unimportant guy he’ll never even meet if it might threaten to reflect badly on him.
But apart from that, Obama will predictably promote as many of the wrong guys as he can. clinton went out of his way to promote a**holes and timeservers, of whom Wesley Clark is probably the best known. Obama will also screw up the chain of command and the Pentagon, as much as he can.
I also have wondered what the career consequences will be to the people who decided to act. The Capt and the Seal Team leader had to have some interesting conversations I would think.
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Navy snipers had multiple chances to shoot Somali pirates (Obama waits until Captain nearly killed)
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An interesting and likely position. Can you imagine the conversations these young men had while waiting on ZERO to abandon the BFI? I wondered why a hostage negotiator could get there (if one did) and not a proper weapons team.
More, you don’t need snipers to level the top of a fiberglass lifeboat if the hostage is in the water like Captain Phillips was. A 50 cal or two operated by seamen will do just fine without too much accuracy. Keeps the pirates heads down too. They not only weren’t authorized they were most likely UNAUTHORIZED to fire.
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He'll probably be promoted... to KP... permanently...
Why have we not seen the officer’s name? Is it to protect him or protect Obama?