Message to Adm. William McRaven (Ret.)

Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance was recently pardoned by President Trump for supposed murders committed under his direction in combat in Afghanistan. In an interview on Fox News after being released from prison, Lorance stated:

     "A service member who knows that their commanders love them will go to the gates of hell for their country and knock them down," Lorance said. "I think that's extremely important. Anybody who is not part of the senior Pentagon brass will tell you the same thing."

      "I think folks that start putting stars on their collar — anybody that has got to be confirmed by the Senate for a promotion — they are no longer a soldier, they are a politician," he continued. "And so I think they lose some of their values — and they certainly lose a lot of their respect from their subordinates — when they do what they did to me, which was throw me under the bus."

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