20-11-2019 04:42 via news.yahoo.com

Navy could remove Gallagher from SEALs, even after Trump intervention

Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, whose rank was recently restored by President Donald Trump in a controversial move, could be removed from the Navy SEALs, U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.Gallagher, a SEAL team platoon leader, was accused of committing war crimes while deployed in Iraq in 2017.In July, a military jury acquitted him of murdering a captured Islamic State fighter by stabbing the wounded prisoner in the neck, but it convicted him of illegally posing with the detainee
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