Posted on 07/05/2019 4:09:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Plenty of ex-SEALS running their own companies, with most providing on-board security to tankers and other ships that are exposed to risks by pirates and such.
I suspect he will find employment there.
No one should be able to prosecute someone for war crimes unless they serve on the front line themselves.
I can tell you from the prospective of a retired Army Officer who issued various punishments during my career that the judge risks having this sentence overturned as excessive punishment. This is a “crime” that could have been addressed with a reprimand, official or unofficial or something along those lines. Jail time for taking this photo is absurd and I hope President Trump will now move forward on a pardon full and complete. I would have called him in my office and read him the riot act or even given him all copied of a letter of reprimand which he could have done with as he pleased.
His trial was a witch hunt.
I'll bet they still call him "Chief." I will.
“This is a “crime” that could have been addressed with a reprimand, official or unofficial or something along those lines. Jail time for taking this photo is absurd”
You’re right. Tasteless, but any confinement is unwarranted. He has already been unjustly punished.
Agree. I hold his superiors responsible for not removing him from combat duties years ago. Too much.
He should reenlist. Force his superiors to deal with him. His 20 years are just about up. Retirement should not be thought of as the light at the end of the tunnel. That them on!
Bttt.
5.56mm
If you can’t pose with a dead isis muzzy, what good are they?
Impossible. Not with a court-martial conviction.
My father arrived on Saipan as part of Navy construction battalion, just after the island was liberated.
He befriended some Marines, and was given a Japanese company or battalion flag that one of them had from a captured in bunker complex, as a gesture for a couple cases of beer and some cigarettes my father had access to. My father later donated it to a museum
He talked to the Marines and asked how they got it. One of them said “first, we had to kill every.single.jap we saw. After that, taking it was easy.”
A bureaucracy that trains a man to kill, sends him to god forsaken places in the mid-east in endless war, to battle the government’s declared enemies - and then prosecutes him for taking a photo with a damned corpse isn’t fit for purpose.
I agree with you. This charge was thrown in just in case the other charges ran into trouble. Of course, they did, because the prosecution had gone rogue.
I’m personally guilty of this charge, but I’m pretty sure that I have the only copy of the photo. It wasn’t a full body, just a skull that one of my platoon leaders had left as a trail marker so that I knew which fork to take. I took a number of photos of dead soldiers for intel purposes and I knew that posing with dead enemy was verboten.
Posing with the entire platoon was a dumb ass move, not professional, but it deserved a good ass chewing.
Are all lawyers corrupt?
There I go again, axing a self answering question.
I guess the jury is all military which I feel is fair.
Not to mention, he was the only one charged when it was a group photo.
“As God as my witness I swear I thought this turkey was still alive”
Apologies to WKRP in Cincinnati
Who are you talking about? Are you sure you are on the right thread?
Twenty years is "high year tenure" for an E-6, Gallagher's new pay grade (exceptions can be made to increase it to 22 years for Sailors on sea duty). Plus, he undoubtedly received a "not recommended for retention" endorsement on his special evaluation.
He's done with the Navy. Time to call it a career and enjoy life as a retiree and, most importantly, a free man.
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