It is highly irregular for a secretary to become deeply involved in most personnel matters. Our system of military justice has helped build the world’s most powerful navy; good leaders get promoted, bad ones get moved out, and criminals are punished. The Naval Special Warfare community owns the Trident pin, not the secretary of the Navy, not the defense secretary, not even the president. The next day, the Navy established a review board to decide the status of Gallagher’s Trident pin. The public should know that we have extensive screening procedures in place to assess the health and well-being of our forces.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2019 22:52 UTC