![]() ![]() 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. ![]() NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO - Edward Gallagher was something special, even by the punishing standards of the Navy SEALs. ![]()
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