Killing people is EXACTLY the reason Chief Gallagher was sent to bumfuckistan.
It floors me that we have so many Monday morning quarterbacks who can just say with so much certainty (from the air conditioned comfort of their Lazy-Boy) exactly what the Chief should have or shouldn’t have done over there in that shitty hellhole he was sent to. I’d really like to know what percentage of these people have ever held a weapon in their hands and of that (my guess is small) percentage, what percentage have ever held that weapon in a combat zone surrounded by REAL maniacs willing to blow themselves up in a effort to kill you. Because in THAT environment, rules of:
do not apply.
You gotta make a choice…do you want the freedom afforded by warfighters like Chief Gallagher or not? If you don’t like how he and men like him provide that freedom, then go see/send your children to go see your local recruiter and sign on the dotted line. Until that happens, it does my heart good to see the CinC send a strong message that the men at the tip of the sword will not be made to be scapegoats by the “leaders” above him. Based on what I saw when I was in the Navy, I think @squidly was absolutely DEAD ON when he said:
Trump had the balls to call ‘bullshit’ and make it right.