Posted on 07/04/2019 1:20:50 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher will be reduced from an E7 to an E6 and will receive a cut to his pay and benefits for posing for a picture with a corpse.
Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher will have his rank reduced and is sentenced to four months of confinement, which he has already served, for posing with the body of a dead Islamic State fighter, the San Diego jury decided Wednesday.
Gallagher's attorney confirmed to Fox News that he will retire from the U.S. Navy when he becomes eligible in about three weeks as he hits his 20 years of service.
The SEAL was found not guilty Tuesday on six of the most serious counts he was facing, including premeditated murder, willfully discharging a firearm to endanger human life, retaliation against members of his platoon for reporting his alleged actions, obstruction of justice and the attempted murders of two noncombatants.
"I feel fine. It’s all right, you know? The jury came with a verdict. I trust them," Gallagher told Fox News after his sentencing Wednesday, which stipulates his rank will be reduced to an E6 paygrade, affecting both his pay and his benefits. A jury also sentenced the SEAL to pay $2,697 per month for four months.
Prior to sentencing, Gallagher’s defense succeeded in getting the judge to reduce the potential forfeiture to 50 percent, arguing that some of Gallagher’s pre-trial confinement was tantamount to punishment based on the fact that he was denied access to a computer and some medical treatment. Even though the jury came back with a 4-month partial forfeiture of pay, it will be cut in half, resulting in 2 months partial forfeiture.
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America needs her Warrior personalities, ready to go and get things done. This is not going to attract that kind of person. Why should they put their lives on the line, only to have their own country playing games with their fate after the appropriate deeds have been done?
Posing for ANY pic that is at all questionable is dumb, as anyone should know. Just because we have the technology to capture every moment forever doesn’t mean we should.
The jury did VERY well. HOWEVER, some POS obamatard minions in the military made this move.
About equal to two years salary that I received my first year in service.
“He should wait a few months for the think to blow over so he could quietly get his E-7 back.”
Nah. I think he’s had enough of this crap.
Mike Rowe is almost a dead ringer
Evidently there is but what is ironic is that he was posing with the rest of the squad in a group photo and no charges were brought against them.......go figure!
This is a travesty. This case should never have been brought
The highest rank where one has served honorably. The DoD will not consider his E-7 rank as honorable due to this sentence.
I swear there are some generals or brass somewhere that need a kick in the ass for this.
It has been against regulations forever, at least back to Vietnam and probably earlier. So that would fit under Article 92. I don't know of anyone ever charged for this, but this is one of those charges that you would add when more serious charges were being contemplated. As in this case. This one is easy to prove, so it guarantees that you get a conviction. Gallagher shouldn't have allowed the photo and made some other dubious lapses of judgment, but I don't think that he was a murderer as charged.
It’s not 1952.
Probably Article 134. That covers conduct that doesn’t have its own specific article.
I’d like to see the reviewing authority suspend the punishment. Seems way out of proportion to the crime.
Yes.
Hopefully Chuck Shumer.
Where is his go-fund-me. I will donate to it.
...Isn’t retirement pay based upon the highest rank one attained while on active duty...
It’s primarily based on the highest 3 years pay + other factors
The thing about the UCMJ is that there is always an article that applies to your actions if they want to get you, and if they want to really get you, or if they think you might get off on one charge, it will be a bunch of articles. How charges and punishment comes down is arbitrary and capricious, largely at the discretion of the chain of command, but the chain of command is also looking at their own skin in the game.
It's hard to overlook a photo from the defendant's phone doing something clearly mentioned (after Abu ghirab) in at least one predeployment briefing.
I hope President Trump gives Eddie Gallagher a commission.
He would make a fine officer.
The UCMJ has a catch all article they can charge you under if they want to get you for even jaywalking. Military courts and the chain of command that brings charges can be infested by leftists, just as in the civilian courts. Most of the officer corps is left leaning these days, and would have their troops fire on conservatives if given the opportunity. It’s not your dad’s military any longer.
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