A lot of people do NOT know that the US military DOES disciple their members for things they may think ARE against the rules or code of conduct…
US Warriors that go off to war HAVE rules of what they can and CANNOT do….
War and combat maybe dirty…
But it has some limits…
President Trump threatened to exonerate a Navy SEAL that the navy wants removed from service illegal actions and threatened against others who might report his actions…
Donald Trump, the Commander -in-Chief of the America military has often pushed Border cops to break the law if need be to stop illegal immigrents from crossing the border (Union heads immediately told their members to disregard Trump’s suggestions)…
Trump in this case seems to feel that American troops should NOT held accountable for illegal acts…
His feeling on this has put him in direct conflict his command people in the Navy who have threatened to quit en mass and in public…Something Trump can ill afford with the other trouble he’s in with Congress…
Trump has already pardon’ed several other soldiers that where convicted to crimes by military courts…
The view seems to be that Donald Trump does NOT want the US Military holding court over its members…
The secretary of the Navy and the admiral who leads the SEALs have threatened to resign or be fired if plans to expel a commando from the elite unit in a war crimes case are halted by President Trump, administration officials said Saturday.
The Navy is proceeding with the disciplinary plans against the commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, who counts Mr. Trump as one of his most vocal supporters. After reversing a demotion in recent days, the president suggested on Thursday that he would intervene again in the case, saying that the sailor should remain in the unit…
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Mr. Trump, who was lobbied heavily by the families of the three service members, announced on Nov. 15 that he was reversing the demotion of Chief Gallagher. He also ordered the full pardon of Clint Lorance, a former Army lieutenant who was serving a 19-year sentence in a military prison at Fort Leavenworth for the murder of two civilians; and of Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn, an Army Special Forces officer who was facing murder charges for killing an unarmed Afghan he believed was a Taliban bomb maker.
One of the jurors who convicted Chief Gallagher expressed dismay at the president’s actions in an interview on Friday, noting that the all-military jury had given Chief Gallagher the maximum punishment allowable under the law because it found his behavior so reprehensible. He spoke out for the first time to defend the decision of the jury.
“People keep saying all he did is pose in a photo and there were lots of other guys in the photo,” said the juror, who asked that his name not be used to protect the privacy of the deliberations. “But he was the senior enlisted guy there, the oldest, the most experienced. He should have set an example for good order and discipline. He should have ensured stuff like that wasn’t happening. And he didn’t. He doesn’t deserve to wear chief’s anchors.”
The juror said he hoped the Trident review process would be allowed to go forward, adding, “Let other SEALs decide if he deserves to be a SEAL.”….