The Pentagon is considering recommending a former Navy SEAL who has bragged about his tequila drinking for the top civilian post overseeing special operations forces
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201907/2728/1155968404_6055205783001_6055204341001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"The top commander of the SEALs and other elite Navy troops, Rear Adm. Collin Green, warned in a letter to subordinates in July that “we have a good order and discipline problem that must be addressed immediately.”
“How do you go about changing the culture? I’m not sure they have a good handle on how to turn that supertanker around,” said Couch, the retired SEAL captain, of his former community“It may require drastic measures to extinguish the minority of bad actors who are creating these problems.” At the time of Bremer’s 2017 White House visit, Feinberg and Erik Prince, another former SEAL and the founder of the security contracting company Blackwater, were offering the Trump administration competing plans to privatize the war in Afghanistan with armed contractors. Those plans went nowhere, and it's not clear what role Bremer played in them. But since 2018, Feinberg has headed the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
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