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Episode 491: Toxic SEAL culture, Eddie Gallagher's trial, and Trump's intervention

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🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Navy SEAL and New York Times best-selling author …

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radio. Special operations. enough. You're listening to Software Radio, Special Operations Military News, and

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I'm, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hey guys welcome back to Soft Rep Radio, it's Brandon Webb. This week I'm going to cover something that has been probably on everyone's minds is Trump's intervention with Eddie Gallagher, the Navy Seal, who was brought up on

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war crimes and had a tumultuous trial and eventually was found not guilty.

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And apparently the Navy SEAL command, which is a war com under Admiral Green, decided to essentially do a Trident review board.

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And what that is is when somebody has issues in the teams and they're essentially it's a mechanism to review them as an

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operator and decide whether to pull their seal pin to strip them of their identity as a seal or not.

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And so, in no surprise to me that Trump intervened.

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I mean, Eddie Gallagher's lawyers,

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one of whom was a former Trump attorney has really done a masterful job of working

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the press and the public relations angle the whole case which matters quite a bit and in and Trump being a vocal supporter that he

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it should have come from no surprise to Admiral Green that Trump would get

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involved and essentially shut down the attempt to what appears to be an

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attempt to strip Eddie Gallagher of not only his rank, but his official title as a seal right before he retires.

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And yeah, I had a bunch of friends just asked me over and over

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in the business community, because this was, you know,

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for a couple of weeks there,

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it was on everyone's mind. So I ended up writing an article about it. I really didn't

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want to write the article in all honesty. I just, I'm so tired of the throughout the years that all the internal sealed drama that me and my fellow author friends have had to deal with that I just I didn't want to write it.

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And at the point, then I started thinking about it,

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and a good friend of my James Altichor says,

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