To link - Navy Lets Accused SEALs Stay In Elite Unit; Fired Navy Secretary Slams Trump
"U.S. Navy Secretary says he did not threaten to resign in dispute with Trump"
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"Shocking and unprecedented," that's how ousted Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer describes President Trump's intervention in the Navy SEALs Trident scandal. Spencer was fired this week over the controversy.
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The need for military discipline
Janessa Goldbeck, a Marine veteran with the Truman National Security Project says taking this case out of the hands of commanders sends a message to others in the military.
"A review board of SEALs is the appropriate next step," Goldbeck says of the Navy's decision to suspend the review hearing of Portier, Breisch and MacNeil. "It's disappointing to see the president undermine his leadership in this way."
Former Navy Secretary Spencer says in his op-ed that military discipline works best when senior leadership stays out of it.
"Our system of military justice has helped build the world's most powerful navy; good leaders get promoted, bad ones get moved out, and criminals are punished," Spencer writes.
He adds that ethical conduct and the military justice system that enforces it are hallmarks of the U.S. military.
"We are effective overseas," Spencer says. "Not because we have the best equipment but because we are professionals."
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