Daily Beast: Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed.
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.
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.
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Update #1: Green Beret killed by strangulation reportedly turned down illegal money from Navy SEALs (Business Insider)
Update #2: Pair of Navy SEALs are suspected of murdering Green Beret who 'found out they were stealing from a special-ops fund in Mali' - after giving authorities the WORST excuse possible (Daily Mail)
WNU Editor: Being murdered by your fellow soldiers over money is probably the last thing that any soldier would suspect.
1 comment:
Actually, no.
People embezzling can project out how much they will get from military retirement and a future job.
They can project out how much they will get after being busted, imprisoned and then being unemployable.
They can see the difference.
Many will absolutely be willing to murder to prevent the second scenario from happening.
They did not join the military thinking I will steal and then I will murder to cover it up. they were not that type of people.
But once they put themselves in that position at that point what they were willing to do changed.
People carrying cash for the government have sidearms for a reason. You can't trust people even on base. Out of a 100 or 1,000 people, one will let you down.
The Seals and many other groups need training. It doesn't take long. It is utilitarian in nature. How much cash do you need in order to live for the rest of your life so that you can live in a country that has no extradition treaty with the US.
Generally you cannot steal that much, so this thought exercise works whether a person is moral or not moral. Even if a person is moral it does not mean they cannot backslide or dip[ below a threshold every now and then.
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