The SO1 sniper told NCIS that one of the SEAL SO1s who assisted Gallagher with the wounded detainee said the chief had begun threatening “to kill mother(expletives)” who accused him of wrongdoing. One of the SEALs is particularly prized by prosecutors because he allegedly was an eyewitness to the murder, but he’s prepared to go to the brig rather than testify in Gallagher’s trial, according to an email provided to Navy Times. They were looking at an image of what appeared to be a male detainee and Gallagher said, “He was on the ground and I just started stabbing him. To the lieutenant, Gallagher was "putting their platoon in an extremely vulnerable position for a mission that was not even authorized,” an argument that ended both his conversation with the chief and the proposed raid, according to the letter provided to Navy Times. My team was doing a decent job of pinpointing where he was shooting from. But justified or not, what’s clear to everyone is that they didn’t like the mission. Just look at what happened to SSG Melgar.I haven't really seen any of that on military subreddits unless it was a civilian piping in. But Gallagher faces a long line of SEALs prepared to provide damning testimony under oath against him. “Jake” Portier, and told him “they needed to get out of the area." User account menu.
Theres no “hurr durr ACT OF VALOR NAVY SEALS!!1!1!! Apparently not. “He wants to help NCIS agents get Eddie,” said Parlatore.
That's what I was reading at Do we have any sources on this stuff?
Eddie Gallagher vs Captain Crozier. Everything between "he's a scumbag war criminal who should be rotting in prison" and "he's an American hero that should be honored for protecting our country".
Filling in that gap of time, an SO1 who had been with the detainee later told NCIS that the wounded fighter also received a chest tube. It was only later, the SO1 said, that he learned his platoon chief took the shot, but it remains unclear why he came to believe it was Gallagher. 76.
Later that night, the LPO gathered the platoon’s enlisted SEALs together and told them “that morally they could not let these actions continue,” so if Iraqi security forces brought more prisoners to them they should send them away so Gallagher “could not injure anyone else,” according to the NCIS report.
(Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images) By CNN.com Wire Service. During Alpha Platoon’s deployment, the SO1 had served as the lead petty officer, or LPO, and his initial statement to NCIS took the agent back to Badush — a village in the suburbs of Mosul — in early May of 2017, when the platoon was conducting an Advise, Assist and Accompany, or AAA, mission with Iraqi coalition forces members. Two other SEAL petty officers told investigators Gallagher bragged about slaying “10-20 people a day or 150-200 people on deployment,” court documents state. Text messages and other digital conversations involving Gallagher can appear damning at times, but they’ve been described by the chief’s supporters as dark humor, the talk of rough men who have experienced a great deal of combat, maybe the voice of an exasperated SEAL who believes he’s being railroaded by accusers and superiors. On May 28, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher will be guided into a courtroom inside Naval Base San Diego, where he will face a panel of his peers sifting evidence in a war crimes case. He was acquitted of most charges while being convicted of posing for a photo with a corpse.
The SEAL didn’t think Gallagher was working on a severely wounded detainee, but the platoon chief was soon assisted by another SO1.
Divisive I guess. Either they are really cool dudes or absolute fuckbags.Seems like all these elite units have a fair amount of mavericks who do dumb shit.That's true, but it seems to be worse in the SEAL units than any other.