Report: DoD Investigating Whether Navy SEALs Strangled Green Beret To Death In Mali

[RackMaster]

This is pretty crazy.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is probing whether a pair of Navy SEALs were responsible for the strangling death of Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar, an Army Green Beret reportedly found dead on June 4 while deployed to Mali, the New York Times first reported on Oct. 29.

Report: DoD Investigating Whether Navy SEALs Strangled Green Beret To Death In Mali

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Wow.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I just saw this on twitter...WILD.

 

[CDG]

Holy shit. This is a bad, bad story all the way around.

ETA: The NYT is reporting the SEALs were from DEV.

2 Navy SEALs Under Suspicion in Strangling of Green Beret in Mali

 

[EasyDay]

From the article

"According to one version of events, one of the SEALs put Sergeant Melgar in a chokehold. When the sergeant passed out, the commandos frantically tried to revive him. Failing that, they rushed him to an emergency clinic, where he was pronounced dead."

 

[AWP]

From the article

"According to one version of events, one of the SEALs put Sergeant Melgar in a chokehold. When the sergeant passed out, the commandos frantically tried to revive him. Failing that, they rushed him to an emergency clinic, where he was pronounced dead."

I'll do this crazy thing and wait for the investigation to finish, but the story doesn't feel like some mutual MMA gone wrong.

 

[Blizzard]

^ concur

 

[Devildoc]

First, prayers to his family and teammates. Not the way you'd expect to die deployed.

Second, to quote myself when I got in a car wreck when I was 16..."Oh, this is bad...very, very bad."

 

[Gunz]

Holy shit. This is a bad, bad story all the way around.

ETA: The NYT is reporting the SEALs were from DEV.

2 Navy SEALs Under Suspicion in Strangling of Green Beret in Mali

Holy Fuck.

RIP Warrior.

 

[SpitfireV]

Now I'm no pathologist, but I would have thought the cause of death would be different from a choke hold (carotid, I assume?) and from strangulation.

Prima facie, something doesn't seem right here.

 

[CDG]

Yeah, I'm not buying the MMA match gone wrong. Dudes get choked out all the time, and don't die. There is a lot more to this story.

 

[Queeg]

That and who does MMA at 0500?

 

[Ranger Psych]

That and who does MMA at 0500?

Uhh, it depended.

 

[Gunz]

Le Terrace in Bamako. The city comes alive after 2200. Could an 0500 chokehold be alcohol-related?
...

 

[Blizzard]

Uhh, it depended.

^ on whether you were still up from the night before...

 

[RackMaster]

^ on whether you were still up from the night before...

Or up doing PT.

 

[8482farm]

Seems off that two highly trained individuals could have potentially applied a choke hold wrong and still fail to revive the Sergeant. Circulation automatically resumes after the hold is released.

 

[Red Flag 1]

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[8482farm]

Well, if prolonged(near 5 minutes+), onset of brain damage is inevitable due to lack of oxygen saturation in the brain. However, it may only be a couple of minutes to put someone out and for them to come to if you temporarily cut off circulation. You'd have to have him in the hold for a while in order to put him in a state passed revival. In my opinion, he might have been strangled instead.

 

[Red Flag 1]

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