After forced retirement, disgraced Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher's video endangers active soldiers
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A Navy SEAL who was forced to retire after he was convicted of posing with the corpse of a captive teen has now taken to social media to publicly ridicule and endanger active SEALs who helped expose his dangerously bad judgment. Former Chief Petty OfficerAfter forced retirement, disgraced Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher's video endangers active soldiers
A Navy SEAL who was forced to retire after he was convicted of posing with the corpse of a captive teen has now taken to social media to publicly ridicule and endanger active SEALs who helped expose his dangerously bad judgment. Former Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher was on deployment to Iraq in 2017 when he was accused of multiple war crimes including killing civilians and threatening to kill SEAL members who reported him, according to The New York Times. He was acquitted of most of the crimes, apparently inspiring Gallagher to write off the single conviction as a victory because after all, it was only one. Even after he was allowed to retire as a means of escaping punishment for the conviction, Gallagher refused to do so quietly. He instead called out multiple members of his old troop by name and featured photos of them in a three-minute video initially spotted by The San Diego Union-Tribune. «Even though I went to trial, exposed all the lies that were said about me by certain cowards in my platoon and found not guilty, there are those to this day who refuse to accept that fact,» Gallagher said in the video. «I wanted to put this all behind me and move on with my life. Unfortunately, the fight to clear my name is not over.» Read more