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SEALs caught up in Eddie Gallagher case will be allowed to keep their Tridents, Navy says

By Russ Read
Published November 27, 2019 6:11pm ET
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SEALs caught up in Eddie Gallagher case will be allowed to keep their Tridents, Navy says
Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, right, and his wife, Andrea Gallagher leave a military court on Naval Base San Diego on Tuesday in San Diego. A military jury acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of premeditated murder Tuesday in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017. | (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The Navy announced Wednesday it will no longer pursue action against three SEALs involved in the Eddie Gallagher case, allowing them to keep their Tridents.

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly directed chief of naval operations Adm. Michael Gilday to “terminate” the Trident reviews of Lt. Jacob Portier, Lt. Thomas MacNeil, and Lt. Cmdr. Robert Breisch.

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