At DEVGRU (Team 6 to the uninformed) they have a Grave Stone / Rock of Shame.

I killed the bad guy,” he added later. After I shot this dude in the head, there was a guy who had his feet, just his feet, sticking out of some little rut or something over here.

Author: Jason Murray (Current Enterprise Architect, Former SEAL) Circuit – sick of hearing “SEALs” “Some of the millions?” I’m sorry, but not only should Bissonnette have to forfeit every penny he ever earned peddling his story about one of the most sensitive SOF operations in history, he should have to forfeit his freedom as well.

There’s “always some kind of solace sought in decorating someone with the award,” said one of Slabinski’s former leaders at SEAL Team 6, who spent more than 30 years in Special Operations. In 2007, Slabinski was sent back to Afghanistan as a squadron master chief, which made him the senior noncommissioned officer of Blue Squadron. A quick reaction force, consisting mostly of Army Rangers, then engaged in a pitched battle for control of Takur Ghar, as Slabinski called in airstrikes from his position down the side of the mountain. But Slabinski’s dishonorable actions are only a part of a much larger problem. It was just good therapy. Former US Navy SEAL Mark Bissonnette, the best selling author sellout who wrote “No Easy Day,” the unauthorized (and possibly embellished) story of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, is back in the news and back in trouble with the law. Even worse, he’d done so while speaking to the press. Trump campaign scores legal win in Pennsylvania vote count, College student with COVID-19 found dead in dorm room while quarantining, USPS says huge amount of mail-in ballots were not delivered, Woman busts her cheating boyfriend after spotting clue in his selfie, Police, protesters clash in NYC as demonstration turns chaotic. In the view of senior SEAL Team 6 leaders, Slabinski had lied. For 15 years, as SEAL Team 6 senior officers and leaders received reports that their operators were skinning, scalping, canoeing, and otherwise mutilating enemy corpses with custom-made hatchets in Afghanistan and Iraq, they either ignored the warnings or helped cover them up. You’ve closed this ugly part of our command’s history, and everyone gets away with it. “That’s what’s wrong with my community,” a former SEAL Team 6 leader told me last year. Presentations of the Medal of Honor are almost always fraught with questions about whether the awards are handed out to make those involved in operations feel better about a loss of life. This story has been shared 108,812 times. I mean, he was dead, but people have got nerves. What we didn’t do was turn him in. Terms of Use The mission was part of the U.S. military’s Operation Anaconda, a multi-day effort to squeeze out and kill the last large group of Al Qaeda militants and Taliban fighters hiding in the valley. I love Marines…,” he wrote in another tweet in which he shared an article in The Post — and also claimed his wife was the one who deleted his offending post. The ability to control my emotions and my actions, regardless of circumstance, sets me apart from other men. For almost four years after Roberts Ridge, SEAL Team 6 intentionally limited Slabinski’s battlefield exposure. By awarding both Chapman and Slabinski the Medal of Honor, the Pentagon presents an impossible version of what happened on Roberts Ridge. His name was added to SEAL Team 6’s “rock of shame,” an unofficial list of pariahs from the famed unit, the outlet said. “We’re aware of this customer’s tweet and are reviewing this event.

John Chapman, who died at the battle of Roberts Ridge, March 3,  2002, in Afghanistan. GOP Leaders Aren’t So Sure.

I have an extensive background in the Special Operations community and I know that every one of us signs non-disclosure agreements in which we pledge to maintain the integrity of the information we gain access to as part of our official duties. In late 2007, members of Blue Squadron were twice investigated by Naval Criminal Investigative Service and JSOC. From practically the moment Slabinski and his team returned to Bagram Air Base, others in the special operations community questioned whether he had erred in his assessment that Chapman was dead and retreated with a member of his team still alive. Inside the secret world of what the military refers to as a “Tier 1” unit, however, Slabinski is part of another legacy, one which also stems from what happened during Roberts Ridge. © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Missouri poll worker with COVID-19 still worked shift, died after election, Airbnb reportedly to make IPO filing public next week despite COVID-19.

The command thus demonstrated that it was perfectly capable of determining the truth for internal purposes — and once again proved it was unwilling to expose even its pariahs to external scrutiny or justice. Behind Joe Biden’s Georgia Surge, a State Ready to Boil Over, Enraged Trump Supporters Swarm Election Offices Spouting Conspiracy Theories. This story has been shared 249,090 times. How many covert wars, miscarriages of justice, and dystopian technologies would remain hidden if our reporters weren’t on the beat? Both versions of what happened at Takur Ghar cannot be true. This story has been shared 134,212 times.

on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadn’t done it? From their perspective, Szymanski had willingly requested a suspected war criminal to be his senior noncommissioned officer. After Roberts’s body was recovered, the military determined that he had been mutilated, a horrific act that led SEAL Team 6 operators to engage in a cycle of vengeance against enemy fighters in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Privacy Notice In addition, SEAL Team 6 operators were “canoeing” dead or dying enemy targets — firing bullets at close range to the top of the skull, splitting it open at the forehead and exposing the brain matter.

108,812, © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. He clearly has a history of using his SEAL-ness for personal gain; that is illegal, immoral, unethical, and a slap in the face of every man and woman who jocks up every night and goes out to do their job, and doesn’t come home to write a tell-all book about it. Bissonnette did this as part of an arrangement with the feds to end an investigation into his frequent and detailed unauthorized disclosures of national security information. The Havok Journal is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Naval Special Warfare has consistently stated that the allegations against Slabinski and SEAL Team 6 are “unfounded,” and that each has been “previously investigated and determined to be not substantiated.” Despite months of my repeated inquires to SEAL Team 6 and Naval Special Warfare, no one would answer a simple question: If no crimes had been committed, why bar Slabinski from SEAL Team 6?