The president used his office to strong-arm the military over Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher
, adding that he was also frustrated that “large cost overruns from past administration’s contracting procedures were not addressed to my satisfaction.
” Therefore, Navy Secretaryostensibly the one to blame for all this, had been “terminated by Secretary of DefenseSpencer’s ouster capped a showdown between Trump and the Navy, which had planned to expel Gallagher from the SEALs after his July conviction for posing with the corpse of an Islamic State captive in 2017. Gallagher was also accused of firing indiscriminately at civilians and obstructing an investigation, among other charges.
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