Should President Trump provide credibility back to UCMJ by charging to start with: Admiral Green, Adm Gilday, Secretary Spencer?

It is truly funny how so many of you there seem to have such a problem with Trump getting involved in Military Court Marshals. But do not have any problems with Obama pardoning Drug dealers.
Killing a terrorist is the job of today's military. not unlike killing the North Vietnamese or North Koreans
or the Chinese in both of those wars. none of you out there should be condemning the men on the lines for there actions unless you were there and saw what happened. NOT by what some arm chair none warfighter thinks should have happened.

My thoughts are, that as CIC, the President sets policy. The new policy as just set forth, puts an end towards the PC era in the military. THe job of the military is to kill people and blow shit up. Were the actions of the individual in question a particularly good idea? Probably not. However- military people who are actually involved in combat operations have earned an amount of lee way. Political correctness is the greatest threat this nation has faced, and I for one am extremely glad to see that there is starting to be some back lash to it!

Did you actually read the article? The Navy isn't kicking the guy out, they are kicking him out of the SEALs and revoking his trident, as well as the trident of two of his commanding officers. He will still get to retire, he will just never be able to call himself a SEAL again.

I think the SEALs are an elite organization that chooses it's own standards and members must meet rigorous and constant assessment.
Whatever one thinks of Chief Gallagher, a whole lot of shit came up in the proceedings that pitted SEAL Team members against each other. There is NO WAY that the community will be able to trust one another in the way that they must after this. His time in Navy Special Warfare is done.

Yes, senior leadership needs to be cleared out on this one.
When accused of crime, even very serious ones, you are innocent until proven guilty. That is a bedrock principle of the constitution. It applies to both civilians and service members. Putting aside my many encounters of the military failing to investigate credible reports of war crimes, when they do decide to pursue charges, they actually have to prove guilt. The Navy had its chance and blew it, badly. Do you know what you call someone who is exonerated by a court martial panel? Innocent. Your personal feelings or mine on the matter are simply not relevant.

The Navy had the opportunity to appeal the findings of the court martial. They have refused, apparently acknowledging the evidential shortfall in their case. Instead, they have tried to maximize punishment for 'posing with a dead body'. Trump, whether you like him or not, is the Commander and Chief. Not not only issued guidance to stop these efforts, he officially pardoned Gallagher. That is the end of the process, full stop. There is no appeal. If senior Naval officials disagreed and genuinely believed that this would undermine military discipline, they had the option to resign rather tan follow the guidance. they elected not too, indicating that there disagreement was not quite as fundamental as they have allowed partisan politics to make it out to be.

There are serious problems with UCMJ. There are serious problem in Naval Special Warfare units that have become public knowledge. There are undoubtedly more that we do not know about. That breakdown in discipline occurred with senior leaders on the watch reporting to Congress that everything was all well and good. There are few, if any, prosecutions of misconduct during this period, validating the old adage that walking by a violation of standard sets a new standard. Combine that with emerging command interference on issues like sexual assault. Service members accused any kind of sex crime face railroad justice, and, again, senior officials over seeing this practice have signed off on it (to the point where the Navy's senior JAG was retired early for unlawful command influence).

Senior military leaders are no strangers to political interference in the UCMJ process. In this particular case, there appears to be a happy coincidence between the Navy's catastrophic misapplication of UCMJ and Trump's determination of a motivated political constituency. The same officials decrying Trump's intervention have had been silent when those interfering where senior military officials. In this particular case, the SECDEF was very correct to relieve SECNAV. He would be very correct to institute changes to the UCMJ that would eliminate this kind of political interference with military justice ... to include by the same commanders lamenting the President's, rather than their own, decisions on cases.

I think you got some stuff mixed up. This is the problem with tyrants...they make their subjects believe they are all-powerful, that they can do as they wish. Trump has the power to pardon--pardon does not mean that the pardoned individual didn't do the crime, or that they aren't guilty of the crime. Pardon means that the crime doesn't matter. So just because a person is pardoned by no means indicates they are fit for service, or that they are somehow now honorable or even fit for duty. Conduct unbecoming is just that. Even though Trump might this the behaviors of this individual are honorable, it isn't up to him. He's lot the faith of his commanders, peers, and is a smear on the reputation of the Navy and all people in the service. He isn't going to be in prison, but he has NO place in uniform. He is a disgrace. A pardoned disgrace, but still a disgrace. This is EXACTLY why Trump should not get involved in stuff like this.

While they are able to do this, the optics do look bad on the senior leaders of the Navy. Since he's requested retirement, just let him. If they want to pull his Trident because of the one Article he was convicted of why aren't they doing the same to the others in the photo?

It pains me to see Trump destroy the U.S. military and everything it stands for. He’s making a mockery out of the UCMJ. The draft dodger in chief has destroyed the historic credibility of our nation’s military. He has used the military for political purposes which is completely wrong. Now, he has destroyed the credibility of the joint chiefs of staff by calling them names because he’s a fuc*king moron. When he wore a maggots hat on to the field of the Army Navy game he again used the military for political purposes. In my opinion, deep down Trump hates the military because he feels Intellectually inferior to the admirals and generals. We should amend the constitution to disqualify anyone from being president who dodged the draft. I just hope the UCMJ and the military are strong enough to survive Trump’s pathetic presidency.

I understand from the posts, many of you support Gallager's actions.
In the future when American service members are executed after capture. When the enemy kills American civilians, I hope you have the decency to keep your mouth shut. By defending this war criminal, you ARE giving permission for our enemies to do the same.
If by chance that enemy is tried and the head of that country pardons him, I would expect you to accept it without complaint.

Two Star Rear Admiral Collin Green should have stopped any review of CPO Gallagher expulsion from the SEALS and taking away his TRIDENT Pin by a board of SEAL personnel when President Trump had already restored Gallagher to the rank of Chief Perry Officer and stated he would retire as a SEAL I look forward to Rear Admiral Green's letter of resignation and retirement from the U. S. Naval Service for failure to take heed of our Commander In Chief direction in regard to CPO Gallagher.