Yes. Except that his career has been fried to a crisp. This will always hang over him.
To parapharse Shakespeare ...
He ... who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing. ‘Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.
Honor. Courage. Commitment. :: All were more important than his ‘career’. HE stood for principle and honorable service to his calling. Too bad his civilian ‘superiors’ do not.
That’s the sad truth.
He’ll end up getting out of the service, and this sort of thing will have a negative impact on all other essential personnel.
Meanwhile, the sort of careerists who polish chairs at the Pentagon will continue to ruin the services for the sake of their promotions, perks, and pensions.
End result: further emasculation of America’s armed forces and diminished war fighting capability at a time when the global challenges faced are heating up world-wide.
I should think the Seal community would embrace him. As long as he stays on that track I would hope he serves to retirement. I think it will be entirely his decision as to how he moves his life forward.
The swiftness of the verdict will also bode well for him. One hopes the Navy, and other military branches, have finally grown beyond their adolescent, and destructive PC culture goofiness. I won’t hold my breath. The collective wisdom of this particular court martial board may be an aberration in the PC world of Adm. Mullen and Gen. McCrystal.
But that does not diminish my joy for this warrior—whose country came within an eyelash of disrespecting his service.