Politics Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward Gallagher

We had a guy brought in in handcuffs from dodging the draft in the Merchant Marine. The FBI met him at the gang plank as his ship docked in Portland.

We had another guy who had an automobile accident shortly before he was drafted. His skull was cracked and they had to surgically implant a steel plate in his head. He was the only guy who didn't need a GI haircut on our first day. On hot days he would pass out in formation. But yes, no one in our unit had the balls to claim bone spurs.

 

50% of active duty military personel disapprove of Trump. When a President loses those guys you might say he's in trouble.

 

Thanks to everyone, whether Democrat or Republican, who stayed out of the Vietnam War. Also the Iraq/Afghan wars. All NBA teams should run halftime programs called "Hometown Heroes" to celebrate us.

As for those who call us, the majority who weren't in the military, cowards, you wanna fight right now? Because I can still do so.

No one in this thread used that word, but the bullying tone here is an echo of what I'm reading in other increasing sources which do use the word, such as Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu.

 

Good quickness to get control, Sly. Took you about 2 minutes to reply.

Changing the direction (which you called tone) was my intention. As for Vietnam, Lanny posts described Vietnam experiences. And Crandc's Trump mention was about Vietnam.

But what set me off was Crandc's bad logic that from the article describing inhumanity in the military, it follows that Trump lacked the morality to join the military. In the past, propaganda like that would have been mouthed only by conservatives, but during the current presidency, has become the mantra of some Democratic leaders.

The majority of young men in the 60s were not in the military. Nowadays it's less than 3%. We can stop this new inaccurate cowardice myth easily if we want to.

 

You also didn't have Bill Clinton who was hiding at Oxford, you didn't have Bernie Sanders who claimed he was a conscientious objector , but proved that false by voting to bomb Iraq, you didn't have Elizabeth Warren or Hillary Clinton who used their female privilege, no Joe Biden (claimed asthma in his childhood) or Michael Bloomberg (flat feet) or Ron Wyden (pasty white skin?) or Mitt Romney or Dick Cheney or Ted Nugent or Rush Limbaugh or Bill OReilly or Rudy Giulliani, and WWll saw John Wayne escape by deferments.

POTUS Trump stands alone among this crowd as the only one who is honestly and openly opposed to war, and the only one who has fought the Deep State's attempts to drag us into a war in Syria, Iran, North Korea...

 

Well, as you said the military is full of bad people and good people.

Not to mention foreigners direct from countries who are our enemies.

If they have a problem following their orders from their Commander in Chief they should probably be shot by firing squad. Drain the swamp!

 

Incorrect.

There has never been a female in the Seals. Nor has a female ever completed the rigorous training to become a Seal. Nor will any female ever, without some sort of "affirmative action" to give her a spot stolen from a more qualified male applicant. It's

Rangers are not comparable to Seals, like apples and oranges. Seals are small, elite teams of special forces, operating as such. Rangers are soldiers scattered throughout the entire army infantry, who have graduated from Ranger training, which focuses on leadership.

There are currently 12 female Rangers, and by most accounts these 12 females are every bit as good as their male counterparts.

 

Gallagher was acquitted on six of seven charges on July 2, 2019; the jury found him guilty of the seventh charge, of "wrongfully posing for an unofficial picture with a human casualty". That charge carried a maximum prison sentence of four months. Since Gallagher had already served more time in jail than the sentence, he was released.

Seems odd that the prosecution witnesses, who posed smiling in the same exact photo, were not charged and prosecuted.

Apparently they traded their perjury for immunity.

The original prosecutor was caught committing felonies against the defense, including inserting spyware into the defense's email accounts. He was dismissed from the case by the judge, but still waiting to hear if the military will prosecute him for his outrageous abuse of military law. If they do not, we can be certain there are higher enemies to be rooted out of our military "leaders".

 

If you stayed out of the Vietnam war that just meant that some other poor slob had to take your place. We had a lot of guys who didn't want to go to war but didn't want to go to prison either.
My only regret was that I should have asked the Army if I got injured would they take care of me? Of course, the answer would have been a lie.

 

Maris wants people killed

 

You clearly have not been reading the news...

 

Gallagher is cashing in like a true Trumper. Paid speaking engagements, modeling camo gear for far right publications. This psychopath gets rich on war crimes, while honorable service members are vilified.

 

It's like an alternate universe.