amputating and feeding through a tube. a conversation full of a lot of pity. he told his wife to put a sign on the door. attention who all that enter here, if you re coming with sadness or sorrow don t worry. i will make a full recovery. this room is about fun, intense rapid regrowth and if you re not prepared for that, we said go elsewhere. a few had more repeated deployments than the special operations community. i know guys in the seals team. i think the record that i m aware of is a guy that did 16 combat deployments and the toll on that is tough. we unequivocally made a difference. again dunford and deployed to marines to iraq and rose to command all u.s. forces in afghanistan for 2 years before becoming chairman of the joint chiefs. we were providing insurance policy to protect the american people from an attack. what s happened recently in
the top of the bat that 99.9% of all military members and that includes the s.e.a.l. community are people of character n-at the grit and serve honorably this country. there are a few that have caused problems. the s.e.a.l.s will work through this as the united states military. the standards of conduct won t change. it s a matter of driving the leadership forward and making sure that everybody understands what the expectations are. and i also think the american people don t need the to worry about the s.e.a.l.s on the battlefield. yes there have been some incidents but they are out there every night defending our values, defending our interests, defending this country and doing necessary things to bad people every single night. lastly, i would say i hope if nothing else this maybe can start a national conversation to the degree we relied on special operators in the last 19 years. they are the troops out there every night doing incredible thing. their deployments are combat deployments.
riveting new video of the fellow navy seals of gallagher calling him evil and toxic and willing to kill somebody that was moving. a rare break in the military code of silence. he said it was perfectly okay to kill anybody. they described the veteran of 8 combat deployments. he got crazier and crazier. i thought he would take a shot a 12-year-old kid. they gave gallagher the nickname of blade. this video appears to show gallagher over the body of a
are expected to report it when you can. and now they have had discipline and issues into the last year or so. and they are trying to get their ma handing around that and they will. no question that they will come to grips with all of that. but it doesn t change the basic nature that they are military men doing a tough job in difficult circumstances, many have deployed multiple times. combat deployments and seeing combat every single day. and they but they are doing it unkeder honorable conditions. and how do you think that it impacts the s.e.a.l.s going forward and how they operate and also their morale? i don t think that it will change tway they operate. they are doing work on behalf of
the supposed pause in fighting. what are your concerns about what comes next? i have so many concerns about what goes next. i was an army ranger, served in iraq and afghanistan, three combat deployments. i know well the situation that s unfolding there. i actually led a congressional delegation a few weeks ago to afghanistan, to jordan, to the syrian border. i talked with our senior military commanders, our diplomats, intelligence officials. number one, none of them had any idea this was about to happen. so there s a huge disconnect between the white house and our top senior diplomats and intelligence officials and military. that s concerning enough. number two, isis is now emboldened. iran is emboldened, syria is emboldened. we have done a couple of terrible things in one fell swoop, the president has done a couple of terrible things. he s emboldened iran in syria and russia. he s emboldened isis. he s ruined our credibility in