He was originally charged with a variety of offenses concerning Gallagher's initial charge of killing a wounded ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017 - charges including conduct unbecoming an officer, dereliction of duty, a failure to report war crimes, allegations against Gallagher.Īnd then you have Lt. OK, well, just remind us, how are these three SEALs involved in the war crimes case that Eddie Gallagher was at the center of?īOWMAN: Well, first of all, they all oversaw Gallagher.

Now I'm told senior Navy leaders in the Pentagon aren't real happy about letting these SEALs keep their Tridents, but they also want to lay all this to rest, just get past it.ĬHANG: Right. And he went on to say - acting Navy secretary - he went on to say that issues with conduct, performance or judgment with the three SEALs could be dealt with with letters of instruction or fitness reports. And he just put the statement out about a half hour ago.

There was no review.īOWMAN: There was no review. And he said neither the Navy nor the SEALs, quote, 'deserves the continued distraction and negative attention that recent events have evoked.'ĬHANG: Oh, this is - so this decision came not even after a review.

NPR's Tom Bowman has been covering all of this and joins us now to talk about the latest developments.ĬHANG: So how did the Navy explain why they were allowing these other SEALs keep their Trident pins?īOWMAN: Well, the acting Navy secretary, Thomas Modly, said in a statement that he directed the top admiral to basically cancel a review about whether they could keep those tridents. And now Gallagher is in the force, and the Navy secretary is out. Trump ordered that the Navy let Gallagher keep his Trident pin. The Navy's decision is just the latest fallout after President Trump intervened in the case of another SEAL, Eddie Gallagher, who was accused of a war crime and convicted of a lesser offense. These pins, which depict an eagle clutching a Trident pistol and anchor, identify sailors as members of the elite fighting force. The Navy is letting three SEALs implicated in a war crimes case keep their Trident pins.

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