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Besides the alleged July 4 rape at al-Asad that got platoon 1726 kicked out of Iraq last summer, the same platoon’s senior enlisted SEAL, Chief Nicholas Olson, was also accused of harassing & exposing himself to a sailor.
From @JimLaPorta & @watson_julie https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
From @JimLaPorta & @watson_julie https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
“It only took one bad platoon chief to influence the entire platoon...just as [Chief Eddie] Gallagher was able to do,” said CJSOTF-I commander Capt. Todd Perry, the top SEAL in Iraq at the time, calling it the “Gallagher effect.” https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
This platoon and Gallagher’s were both in SEAL Team 7. “I said to myself, if they try [to] cover this incident up, I’ll tell the NYT exactly how Eddie Gallagher’s old unit is doing things,” the sailor who blew the whistle (& was harassed by Olson) wrote. https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
“It literally broke my heart because these were people that were my heroes,” that sailor said of the SEALs she did intelligence work for. “Some of the SEALs blamed the female Navy sailors for the interruption in the mission.” https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
Olson is represented by the same lawyer as Gallagher, Tim Parlatore. He “said the July 2 allegation is false and was made by an intelligence specialist who held back information necessary to kill ISIS.” https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
When this happened, the first sources to talk anonymously to reporters said it was about drinking. The military initially only said officially that the SOJTF-OIR commander “lost confidence in the team’s ability to accomplish the mission.” https://apnews.com/101efca1d3589f100c4f2262e984aa22
