The Navy officer who supervised a SEAL accused of fatally stabbing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 was charged Tuesday with various offenses tied to the case, including allegations he conducted the SEAL’s re-enlistment ceremony next to the corpse and encouraged enlisted personnel to pose for photos with the body.
The Defense Department decided that it will not force some 17,000 California National Guard soldiers to repay enlistment bonuses and other payments that they received a decade ago due to a payroll-related snafu.