
Members of the platoon then posed for photos with Gallagher as he held the child soldier’s head up by the hair with one hand, and held his knife in the other. Two of Gallagher’s fellow SEALs testified in a military court that Gallagher unexpectedly stabbed the young ISIS fighter several times in the neck and side as a SEAL medic was treating him.

Video images show that the bleeding fighter, who was thought to be between 12 and 17, was brought to the SEAL platoon for treatment. He congratulated himself for helping to free a Navy SEAL officer who had been accused of a dozen separate crimes of war.Įddie Gallagher, who until this week was a chief petty officer in the Navy, was accused of stabbing a teenage POW to death while the teenager was being treated by a U.S.

Aside from hosting an unprecedented Fourth of July celebration that doubled as a military parade on the National Mall, President Trump made another curious decision involving the military this week.
