GRP 157-The Object Of The Superior Man is Truth: The Story of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher
Global Recon
John Hendricks
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Episode Summary
My guest for this week's podcast is retired Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher. Chief Gallagher completed 20 years in the U.S. Navy, with most of that time spent in the SEAL Teams. He served as a Corpsman and a Sniper. During his final deployment in 2017 to Mosul, Iraq, Gallagher was the Platoon Chief. The objective during this deployment was to work side by side with the Iraqi military to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.
It was after this deployment where a few members of his platoon accused him of committing war crimes. We walked through this deployment and what led to some of the SEALs claiming he was a war criminal. After spending time in a military prison and being mistreated by the Navy, he was acquitted of murder charges. This entire ordeal became a political point of contention which led to President Donald Trump intervening on Gallagher's behalf.
Main Episode Takeaways
- Becoming a Corpsman
- Joining the Navy SEALs
- Defeating ISIS
- War Crimes
- Problems with the military justice system
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| 0:00.0 | On trial for war crimes, today special operations chief, Edward Gallagher, is facing the fight of his life. |
| 0:06.0 | The highly decorated Navy SEAL platoon leader stands charged with murdering a wounded ISIS fighter |
| 0:12.0 | captured in Mosul Iraq in 2017, and with shooting two unarmed civilians, a school-aged girl and an elderly man from a sniper's nest, who prosecutors |
| 0:22.6 | say pose no threat. |
| 0:24.6 | Gallagher denying all charges, his wife standing by his side. |
| 0:28.6 | We have witnesses that say this never happened. |
| 0:31.6 | This person ticked their last breath due to the injuries that they had sustained. |
| 0:36.6 | But what happened in our case |
| 0:38.5 | was after NCIS terrorized our family, they then took my husband out of a TBI clinic |
| 0:44.2 | on September 11th, Patriot's Day nonetheless, and then have proceeded to torture him, 72 hours |
| 0:50.9 | in solitary confinement, and then 15 weeks in jail at the Brigitte Miramar. |
| 0:57.6 | And this is unfathomable that they would do this to our troops. |
| 1:01.4 | Your message to Army leadership, Navy leadership, the president, to those that have the power to review this case. |
| 1:08.8 | My husband is innocent. He has proclaimed his innocence all along. |
| 1:12.6 | These lies and rumors that were cobbled together by millennial seals are shameless and utterly false. |
| 1:18.6 | It was picked up by NCIS who cobbled together the case in order to advance the careers of the people |
| 1:23.6 | that started this and wanted to win more than the truth. |
| 1:26.6 | They hit exculpatory evidence. |
| 1:28.5 | Then you have a prosecution that's willing to go to any links to commit criminal behavior |
| 1:32.9 | to put someone away for life. |
| 1:35.0 | You cannot break the law to uphold it. |
| 1:37.4 | And that's what we're seeing here. |
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