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Chief G. Not Guilty

ChrisStreettChrisStreett Member Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭
edited July 2019 in General Discussion
Washington Examiner reports SEAL Chief Gallagher found not guilty.
"...dying ain't much of a living boy"-Josey Wales
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am glad he was found not guilty.
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is good. The gov and country put these soldiers in harms way.

    The exposure to war with no rules and no uniformed enemy and expect perfections unattainable.

    Returning vets, 22 commit suicide daily. Then we prosecute others for doing the job.

    Insanity has taken over our land.
    "What is truth?'
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good deal!!!!!!!!!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well if he's not guilty then perhaps the men that plotted against him should be investigated and prosecuted. LIkely to get time served for the one conviction, perhaps a reduction in rank?
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great!

    Now turn him loose and let him kill more ISIL scumbags
    RLTW

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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,309 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wpageabc wrote:
    The gov and country put these soldiers in harms way.

    The exposure to war with no rules and no uniformed enemy and expect perfections unattainable.

    Absolute truth you speak ;)

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,285 ******
    edited November -1
    Sounded more and more like someone was trying to railroad him.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    jimdeere wrote:
    Sounded more and more like someone was trying to railroad him.

    Yes, sounded like several in his unit did not like his leadership style and conspired to get him locked up for life.
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,938 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We shouldn?t be killing unarmed prisoners.

    I understand he did not physically do it- per the testimony- but if ISIS put a knife in the neck of one of ours we would find it quite unacceptable.

    None of us will ever really know what happened but one thing that is not in dispute is a prisoner of war in US custody was killed after he was captured and no longer a direct threat.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great News
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Warbirds wrote:
    We shouldn?t be killing unarmed prisoners.

    I understand he did not physically do it- per the testimony- but if ISIS put a knife in the neck of one of ours we would find it quite unacceptable.

    None of us will ever really know what happened but one thing that is not in dispute is a prisoner of war in US custody was killed after he was captured and no longer a direct threat.

    Yeah, and nobodies ever been bitten by a caged snake.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Warbirds wrote:
    We shouldn?t be killing unarmed prisoners.

    I understand he did not physically do it- per the testimony- but if ISIS put a knife in the neck of one of ours we would find it quite unacceptable.

    None of us will ever really know what happened but one thing that is not in dispute is a prisoner of war in US custody was killed after he was captured and no longer a direct threat.
    Well then The JAG better continue their investigation because this patsy didn't kill him, a jury determined that fact.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Warbirds wrote:
    We shouldn?t be killing unarmed prisoners.

    I understand he did not physically do it- per the testimony- but if ISIS put a knife in the neck of one of ours we would find it quite unacceptable.

    None of us will ever really know what happened but one thing that is not in dispute is a prisoner of war in US custody was killed after he was captured and no longer a direct threat.

    Agreed, Warbirds.

    It seems fairly well established that at a minimum he did stab the iswas puke. Not acceptable behavior from a member of the US Armed Forces. Interesting that this was not one of the charges against him.

    While I have no problem with a member of iswas being dead, and there is probably some truth to the story of the corpsman that he would have died a much worse death in the hands of the Iraqi government, there is a line that individuals of the US Armed Forces should not cross. It appears that Gallagher crossed this line, and while I somewhat sympathize with the application of the concept of jury nullification in this case, I also believe that there is no place in our military for this man, and it is right that he has been removed.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Warbirds wrote:
    We shouldn?t be killing unarmed prisoners.

    I understand he did not physically do it- per the testimony- but if ISIS put a knife in the neck of one of ours we would find it quite unacceptable.

    None of us will ever really know what happened but one thing that is not in dispute is a prisoner of war in US custody was killed after he was captured and no longer a direct threat.

    I agree. Once a prisoner and no longer a threat - treat him as harsh as you want. But there?s that line that must not be crossed.
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
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