Visit the troops, take the rank off, so to speak, and just listen.
“Can he still be effective?” asks David Cooper, a retired command master chief of SEAL Team Six. If Green does survive, he must continue on his effort to clean up the SEALs image without weighing in on one of the highest profile military justice cases in the post-9/11 era. Spencer’s departure raises questions about Green’s future atop the SEALs, as well as the Trump Administration’s appetite for ethical reform inside the Special Operations community.
“I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took,” he wrote in his resignation letter. Mark Milley and former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer agreed with Green that even though Gallagher exonerated from murder allegations, he should still face a review board to decide whether he could retire as a SEAL. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. He just wanted to hold Gallagher to the same standard that all SEALs are held to when Trump waded into the case. officials close to Green say he never planned to make an example of Gallagher. Anything less sends the wrong signal to everyone who’s doing their job the right way. “The SEALs should be allowed to decide who can remain a SEAL. “How can Admiral Green be asked to clean up the bad behavior in the SEAL community if you take away his only way to hold people accountable?” says Stuart Bradin, a retired Green Beret colonel and president of the Global SOF Foundation, a non-profit association for Special Operations forces. None of those cases have achieved national attention like the Gallagher case. The Navy has expelled 154 sailors from the SEALs since 2011, stripping them of the right to wear the gold Trident pins that signify membership. “It shows undue political influence on military justice and administrative processes as well as undermines current efforts that have been undertaken to reform the force.” “But was it the right thing to do? No,” he says. Michael Lumpkin, a retired Navy SEAL commander and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, said it’s within the President’s authority to inject himself into individual legal cases under military jurisdiction prior to adjudication. In the long term, they say, it could destabilize attempts to address the long-standing problems plaguing one of the nation’s front-line defenses against transnational threats. President Donald Trump’s meddling into the case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was accused by his teammates of fatally stabbing an unarmed, captured ISIS fighter and attempting to murder Iraqi civilians during a 2017 deployment, incensed current and former military leaders who say the interference is without precedent in American history.
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