Following President Trump's pardon of a Navy SEAL that went against the wishes of Pentagon leadership, the concept of ethics in the military is again at the forefront.
In his letter to President Trump, Richard Spencer, the Navy secretary who was fired on Sunday, said he no longer shared the “same understanding” of “good order and discipline” with the commander in chief. The term has come up repeatedly in myriad recent scandals involving the Navy SEALs.
Spencer was fired over his differences with the president about plans to discipline Eddie Gallagher, a SEAL team chief who was accused of stabbing a teenage Islamic State prisoner to death and taking sniper shots at civilians, striking a young girl and an old man carrying water. In July, Gallagher was found not guilty of the murder charge despite testimony from his fellow SEALs.
In 2012, Mike Stevens, a former master chief petty officer of the Navy, wrote on the branch’s official blog that “Good Order & Discipline is something difficult to define but easy to sense. To me, it is about establishing, sustaining and enforcing professional standards that set the condition for individual and unit success. Anything that interferes with or detracts from those conditions is contrary to Good Order & Discipline.
“We have a problem,” Green wrote in the memo, dated July 25. “Some of our subordinate formations have failed to maintain good order and discipline, and as a result and for good reason, our NSW culture is being questioned.” In August, Green ordered a series of changes to address what he called a “drift” from the Navy’s core values.
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