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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Might be one in the Geneva conventions.
Geneva Convention IV Article 16, second paragraph, of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV provides: “As far as military considerations allow, each Party to the conflict shall facilitate the steps taken … to protect [the killed] against … ill-treatment.”
That being said, these are the animals that have dragged American through the streets and hung the remains on bridges.
Some of the witnesses were in the photos too!!!!
It will take decades of exemplary behavior before JAG and military flag officers can be trusted as being loyal to the U.S. I hope someday in the future that we can begin to count those decades.
“Mike Rowe is almost a dead ringer”
Rowe is a lot taller. Wahlberg and Gallagher are not big guys.
What. The prosecutor suppressed evidence and lied about the video as well as stalled the investigation. The and his CO’s should all be dishonorable discharged!
The penalty for this malfeasance should be the same as the accused would have received had he been found guilty
His whole team posed with the dead fighter, not just Gallagher. But Gallagher was the only one charged.
I’ve seen Eddie Gallagher’s wife on TV before, arguing for his release. She was/is a great, well-polished advocate for him.
The catch-all: Conduct Unbecoming.
ISIS are international terrorists. They wear no uniforms and they are not part of a legit military. They do not abide by the the Geneva Convention and they use terror and crimes against humanity as weapons against the regular military and also the civilian populations they conquer.
They are international criminals and laws pertaining to pirates apply to them, not the Geneva Convention
These particular ISIS were the worst of the worst dead enders making their last stand and they intended to die rather than be captured by the troops and civilian populations they committed war crimes against
The penalty for posing with a dead body should be your superior officer walking over and saying “cut it out”.
Unless things have changed since I left in 1987, enlisted pay grades are called rate. Rank is for commissioned officers.
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