After his latest tour, fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, he was named the top platoon leader in SEAL Team 7 and nominated for the Silver Star, the military’s third-highest honor.īut now, less than a year later, Special Operations Chief Gallagher, 39, is locked in the brig, facing charges that during that same deployment - his eighth - he shot indiscriminately at civilians, killed a teenage Islamic State fighter with a handmade custom blade, and then performed his re-enlistment ceremony posing with the teenager’s bloody corpse in front of an American flag. Both a lifesaving medic and a crack sniper, he was repeatedly decorated for valor and for coolheaded leadership during 19 years of combat deployments.

Want more from Teen Vogue? Check this out: Keke Palmer Didn't Recognize Dick Cheney.Edward Gallagher was something special, even by the punishing standards of the Navy SEALs. According to the Times, Gallagher and his wife set up an online shop selling T-shirts calling the Navy and the SEALs who testified against him “ mean girls.” Salty Frog isn’t Gallagher’s only venture into fashion since his case became national news. In interviews recorded during the Navy’s investigation, members of Gallagher’s platoon called him “evil” and “toxic,” portraying him as bloodthirsty. Martin Luther King, Jr., she said that “‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’” Gallagher's wife, Andrea Gallagher, critiqued the military justice system in a November 2019 interview with Nine Line Apparel, one of the clothing companies involved with the Salty Frog line.

Since then, Gallagher has appeared on Fox News and met with the president at Trump’s Mar-a-lago Resort. But since he had already been confined for more than four months ahead of his trial, he was instead released and demoted - until Trump intervened in one of three high-profile war-crimes cases Trump got involved in last year. Gallagher was sentenced to the maximum penalty for the photo: four months' imprisonment.

Navy Commander Jeff Pietrzyk, who was part of the prosecution in the case, said in closing statements at trial that Gallagher had sent text messages implying that he had killed the teen with a knife.

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