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  • Anguished SEALs Recall Chief as 'Evil' and 'Toxic'

    12/27/2019 7:47:04 AM PST · by Menehune56 · 184 replies
    New York Times via Yoohoo News ^ | 12/27/2019 | Not Attributed
    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.”
  • Trump’s Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon’s Tolerance

    12/01/2019 10:27:30 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 119 replies
    NYT ^ | Dec 1, 2019 | Dave Philipps, Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Helene Cooper
    . . . The violent encounter in a faraway land opened a two-year affair that would pit a Pentagon hierarchy wedded to longstanding rules of combat and discipline against a commander in chief with no experience in uniform but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority. The highest ranks in the Navy insisted Chief Gallagher be held accountable. Mr. Trump overruled the chain of command and the secretary of the Navy was fired. The case of the president and a commando accused of war crimes offers a lesson in how Mr. Trump presides over the armed forces three years...