"I would say the majority of guys are not doing it. The SEALs said the drug use went beyond cocaine to include "methamphetamine, ecstasy and marijuana." Some SEALs called drug testing a "joke." The 2018 investigation into Seal Team 10 highlighted SEALs who admitted to using cocaine during sniper school, training and on deployment. Two of the SEALs who spoke to CBS News said they had firsthand knowledge of deployments where members of the teams were taking drugs. "How do you decide that it's ok to do drugs?" Sands asked the elite forces.īut two years later, after the dressing down by Sands, a heavily redacted Navy investigation obtained by CBS News showed that six members of SEAL Team 10 had tested positive for cocaine. Around 2016, senior SEAL commander Jamie Sands read the East Coast teams the riot act. In the end, Gallagher was convicted of a lesser charge for posing with the dead prisoner's body.ĭrug abuse has been a problem, too. President Trump publicly sided with the SEAL, defending him in November 2019: "They wanted to take his pin away, and I said, 'no, you're not going to take it away. During Gallagher's war crime trial Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott, a SEAL team medic, said that he, not Gallagher, had killed the teenager by asphyxiation.
There is also the controversial case of Edward Gallagher, who was accused of killing a teenage ISIS prisoner in 2017. Lawlessness, narcissism, thinking they're untouchable." "There were a hundred steps leading up to that. "This didn't just happen suddenly," a second one added.
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