Over 30 Republican members of Congress have urged Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to intervene and allow Navy SEAL commander Capt. Brad Geary to retire honorably. The lawmakers are asking Austin to cancel the Navy's planned board of inquiry into Geary, who oversaw the SEAL training course in which Seaman Kyle Mullen died.
More than 30 GOP members of Congress have called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to intervene and allow a Navy SEAL commander to retire honorably after The Post revealedIn a Wednesday letter, the 31 lawmakers asked Austin to cancel the Navy’s planned board of inquiry into Capt. Brad Geary , who oversaw the SEAL training course in which Seaman Kyle Mullen , 24, participated just before heLawmakers asked US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to cancel the Navy’s planned board of inquiry into Capt.
“The Navy changed the investigation, lied to the American public, then built a new investigation based on those lies; thereby fabricating a new perceived need for accountability where it simply doesn’t exist,” Ann Geary alleged on Thursday. The lawmaker letter comes after The Post revealed that the Navy added a sentence to the press release announcing Mullen’s death stating that drugs had not been a factor – despite the service never fully investigating whether that was the case. The sentence was added at Mullen’s mother’s request.
“Additionally, we require that you initiate a personal investigation, brief Congress, and issue a report on all allegations pertaining to any misconduct uncovered by the Department of Defense,” the group wrote. “Our family has suffered because of their lack of integrity and moral courage,” she said. “We are thankful there are so many lawmakers willing to tell the Navy it’s time to ‘get real, get better.’”
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