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timosman
11-12-2017, 10:24 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/green-beret-discovered-seals-illicit-cash-then-he-was-killed


KEVIN MAURER SPENCER ACKERMAN 11.12.17

The story surrounding the slaying of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar keeps unraveling, starting with the SEALs-turned-suspects’ assertion that the soldier was drunk the night he died.

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1440,w_2560,x_0,y_0/dpr_2.0/c_limit,w_740/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1510526531/171112-ackerman-beret-lede_thptqh

Logan Melgar hadn’t had a drink on June 4.

The Green Beret sergeant’s dry day became a key to unraveling the narrative spun by the elite Navy commandos whom military investigators now suspect killed him, officials familiar with the case said.

Melgar, a staff sergeant in the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Group, was specifically selected for an intelligence operation in the West African nation of Mali. He was well respected by the American Embassy staff and the partner forces there, a former U.S. Africa Command official said. But shortly before he died, Melgar told his wife that he had a bad feeling about two of his partners in that effort, both of whom were members of SEAL Team Six.

Not wanting to say much more, Melgar informed his wife, Michelle, that he’d tell her the full story when he got back home, according to an official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still ongoing.

Now those two Navy SEALs are under investigation for killing Melgar—an investigation, first reported by The New York Times, sending shockwaves throughout the special-operations community. Military experts were hard-pressed to think of another case where elite U.S. troops turned on one another.

This account is based on five members of the special-operations community who were not cleared to speak publicly. Representatives of both U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) declined comment for this story, as the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has an active investigation into Melgar’s death. NCIS would not comment beyond confirming the investigation is underway.

Raginfridus
11-12-2017, 10:51 PM
Since when do armies not loot? Special Forces can't just hop in a hooptie blasting savages and pillaging w/o SOCOM knowing can they? The rule's always plausible deniability, so now they've got ncis doing damage control to keep whatever's going on from blowing open.

Sergeant Melgar had obviously seen Black Rain and wanted to do right, but why should governments take the privilege of robbing each other and not the men they send to do the dirty work?

Swordsmyth
11-12-2017, 11:04 PM
Since when do armies not loot? Special Forces can't just hop in a hooptie blasting savages and pillaging w/o SOCOM knowing can they? The rule's always plausible deniability, so now they've got ncis doing damage control to keep whatever's going on from blowing open.

Sergeant Melgar had obviously seen Black Rain and wanted to do right, but why should governments take the privilege of robbing each other and not the men they send to do the dirty work?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9581o27uA&list=PLXZ9rVmNvNrqHhE2VWVhb9rj cCNfBceXy&index=8

oyarde
11-12-2017, 11:09 PM
I would have never let them get the drop on me .

Raginfridus
11-12-2017, 11:11 PM
https://youtu.be/Et1SkVldiHI

Raginfridus
11-12-2017, 11:38 PM
I would have never let them get the drop on me .
Sgt. Melgar should have watched Michael Douglas more closely:



https://youtu.be/hz-VbyU9DUM


Thats how you clean up yakuza, that's how you clean up gangs. At the end of the day, SEALs are just another gang.

enhanced_deficit
11-13-2017, 11:55 AM
Are they allowed to handle large sums of cash ? Bribery of foreign politicians and officials was banned in war zones if recall old news correctly.


Edit to add, nevermind :




https://2012patriot.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/cash-bricks.jpg


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billions-wasted-in-iraq/




http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LRM0H5I0Ps4/TfbB8ybgDeI/AAAAAAAANAk/4D2brZ-2gZs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/419-iraq-money.jpg

https://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.414794.1466024856%21/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_900/image.jpg

Trump's suggestion that servicemembers stole US money in Iraq could pose election problem



https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-s-suggestion-that-servicemembers-stole-us-money-in-iraq-could-pose-election-problem-1.414751

AZJoe
11-16-2018, 10:05 AM
Mali: Two Navy Seal Team 6 Members Under Suspicion of Strangling Army Green Beret in Mali (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/politics/navy-seals-team-6-strangle-green-beret-mali.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66017770&pgtype=Homepage)

"No one has been charged in Sergeant Melgar’s death, which a military medical examiner ruled to be a homicide — strangulation, said three military officials ...

The death has been shrouded in mystery, and the biggest unanswered question is why Sergeant Melgar was killed. “NCIS does not discuss the details of ongoing investigations,” Ed Buice, the agency’s spokesman, said ...

The uncertainty has left soldiers in the tight-knit Green Beret community to speculate whether the killing might have been the result of a personal dispute among housemates gone horribly wrong or whether Sergeant Melgar might have stumbled upon some illicit activity the SEALs were involved in, and they silenced him. ..."

AZJoe
11-16-2018, 10:08 AM
2 Navy SEALs, 2 Marines Charged with Murder of Green Beret (https://news.usni.org/2018/11/15/2-navy-seals-2-marines-charged-murder-green-beret)

Two Navy SEALs and two Marine Raiders are facing murder charges in the 2017 death of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar in a house in Mali, according to charge sheets obtained by USNI News.

The SEALs and Marines are all charged with murder and obstructing justice in the June 4, 2017 death of Melgar. The charge sheets accuse the four of breaking into Melgar’s room, binding him with duct tape while a SEAL choked Melgar to death and then lying to investigators about what had happened. …

While the redacted charge sheets provided to USNI News neither identify the SEALs nor the Marines, a 2017 Army Criminal Investigation Command report identified the SEALs involved in the incident as Petty Officer Antony DeDolph and Chief Petty Officer Adam Cranston Matthews. According to the CID report, a witness said DeDolph admitted he had “choked Logan out” after he and Matthews bound Melgar with duct tape. A medical examiner ruled Melgar’s death a homicide by asphyxiation.

None of the suspects are in pretrial confinement.

DeDolph and Matthews, members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group also known as SEAL Team 6 …

While the charges did not give hint to motive, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday (https://www.thedailybeast.com/seals-marines-charged-with-green-beret-logan-melgars-murder?ref=scroll), “there was an ongoing disagreement between the Green Beret and DeDolph over the SEAL’s professionalism.” …

enhanced_deficit
11-16-2018, 10:43 AM
2 Navy SEALs, 2 Marines Charged with Murder of Green Beret (https://news.usni.org/2018/11/15/2-navy-seals-2-marines-charged-murder-green-beret)

Two Navy SEALs and two Marine Raiders are facing murder charges in the 2017 death of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar in a house in Mali, according to charge sheets obtained by USNI News.

The SEALs and Marines are all charged with murder and obstructing justice in the June 4, 2017 death of Melgar. The charge sheets accuse the four of breaking into Melgar’s room, binding him with duct tape while a SEAL choked Melgar to death and then lying to investigators about what had happened. …

While the redacted charge sheets provided to USNI News neither identify the SEALs nor the Marines, a 2017 Army Criminal Investigation Command report identified the SEALs involved in the incident as Petty Officer Antony DeDolph and Chief Petty Officer Adam Cranston Matthews. According to the CID report, a witness said DeDolph admitted he had “choked Logan out” after he and Matthews bound Melgar with duct tape. A medical examiner ruled Melgar’s death a homicide by asphyxiation.

None of the suspects are in pretrial confinement.

DeDolph and Matthews, members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group also known as SEAL Team 6 …

While the charges did not give hint to motive, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday (https://www.thedailybeast.com/seals-marines-charged-with-green-beret-logan-melgars-murder?ref=scroll), “there was an ongoing disagreement between the Green Beret and DeDolph over the SEAL’s professionalism.” …

While such reporting on senisitive issues might be good for transparency but splashing such details in media headlines also runs the risk of tarnishing special forces repute.

acptulsa
11-16-2018, 10:54 AM
Thank you for your service...

timosman
11-16-2018, 11:43 AM
While such reporting on senisitive issues might be good for transparency but splashing such details in media headlines also runs the risk of tarnishing special forces repute.

Special forces should get their shit together and realize there are no circumstances that could make killing people for money an acceptable affair. Doesn't matter how corrupt your leaders are. :cool: