7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game

"7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game"


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57547417/7-navy-seals-disciplined-for-role-with-video-game/

The U.S. Navy SEALs are part of an elite force that operates in the shadows, best known for killing Osama bin Laden. However, CBS News has learned a group of SEALs has been disciplined for revealing secrets.

The seven members of SEAL Team Six are all still on active duty. One of them was on the raid which killed Osama bin Laden and made SEAL Team Six a household name. For two days this spring and summer, they worked as paid consultants on a recently released video game, "Medal of Honor: Warfighter."

BH Obama reveals secrets about our Navy SEALs and is given a second term but when the SEALs talk about tactics and methods they have their careers destroyed.

What a great commander in chief the liberal horde has managed to hold onto. None of the bin Laden raid should have been talked about by anyone. BH Obama should have confirm in vague terms that bin Laden was dead after the reports of bin Laden's death were wide spread.

If these SEALs should be dispended then BHO should be impeached for using military secrets for political gain.

 

The Navy loves the publicity that the SEALs get them, but this is the dark side of that. Their brand name is worth a lot of money and some will be tempted sadly.

 

They coughed up secrets for a VIDEO GAME!!!

 

I dunno on this one. Everyone in the world makes money with their video games off our troops. If the military received monies off of the Call of Duty series alone they wouldn't have to ask Congress for budget increases. Contractors make money hand over fist off our military, so why not the troops themselves?

True, they told "secrets" but they did it after the job was done, but on the other hand...the military is supposed to hold to codes.

This is a toughie for me since I love our troops.

 

As opposed to a movie.

 

Obama coughed up secrets for a POLITICAL CAMPAIGN!!

 

I'm with you. This is one of those cases where I give benefit of the doubt to the people I respect- in this case, Navy SEALs. I am still in awe that in Benghazi, those two guys ran TOWARDS the trouble and fighting. How can one not respect people with such training and incredible courage? I say cut them some slack.

 

It's not tough. They pay you to do only a few simply things in the military follow orders, fight, die, and keep your mouth shut. No ambiguity. If you want to talk after you get out you run it by the Pentagaon first. Plenty of ex military people write books and consult on movies, video games, etc. And a lot of them were never "elite" troops like Navy SEALs. Being a Navy SEAL should mean something. After wikileaks our allies had serious problems with trusting us with sensitive information, then Romney blurts out he met with MI6, now we have "elite" troops that can't keep their mouths shut. It's a disturbing trend.

 

Wow, if only you had such tough standards of accountability towards Barack Obama on things like the Patriot Act, closing Gitmo, cutting the deficit in half, starting a war for oil, etc etc etc.

 

Just curious, did you condemn Bush and urge people not to vote for him when details about how we caught Saddam we released to the public?

 

They signed non disclosure agreements. Their acts are a breach of military discipline. I like these guys too, but the Navy cannot allow this. I don't want to see their careers ended but this cannot go without some form of disciplinary action.

 

I don't see any "there" there with this story. The 'secrets' given away are unclear? How do we know any 'secrets' were given away at all?

I seriously doubt it.

This smells of retribution for the group of SEALs fighting Obama, as he is exactly the Chicago-thug vindictive type to act in this manner.

 

I agree the few vocal ones are putting the rest of them in a bad light. Job is not supposed to be in the public eye or limelight.

The article I read about this alluded that they spoke about techniques or procedures used by them to make the game more authentic. I would like to believe that it is being blown way out of proportion (and I am sure it is) and that none of them spoke of anything that could be compromising in any way to seal/ special force/ or any military missions.

 

I read their pay got docked for a month or something and they received a letter of reprimand

 

Rules are rules are rules.

The US military is not a democracy nor is it a capitalist state. I am in disbelief that members of such an elite force would violate the rules and used their security access for profit.

It is unclear what secrets members of SEAL Team Six gave away, but while serving as consultants for the game, they used classified material which had been given to them by the Navy. They also violated the unwritten code that SEALs are silent warriors who shun the spotlight.


A rather poor showing on their part.

 

News flash, genius, President Obama is the Commander in Chief. He gives orders. He doesn't take them.

Tough standards?! They got letters of reprimand and their pay docked for two months. You can get a courts martial for divulging secrets. I'm sure they more than made up for their docked pay with whatever cash they got for going Hollywood.

 

the video game company should voluntarily donate a portion of their profit from the game to compensate them. Either that or take up a donation from the people buying the game...that only seems right considering their contribution

 

Either way they should. The millions of people that buy these games do so because they wish they could be these guys.

 

When did SEALs turn into rock stars?

Just do your jobs and stay out of the limelight, what an embarrasment all this publicity is doing to their reputation of silent professionals.

 

I'm pretty sure they were paid consultants. They don't need "donations."

 

Non-disclosure agreement...

*shrug*

There are consequences if you violate them...

 

When the military helped fund hyper-realistic combat gaming and decided that entry criteria for special forces to be that you also look hot as hell.

 

I'm pretty sure they were paid, that doesn't negate the fact that they got in trouble to help that company sell a video game. If it were my company and I found out they got in trouble for their contribution, I would make (*)(*)(*)(*) sure that they would not miss their "docked pay". But that's me.

 

Let me see If i have this about right.SEALS are Demoted and/or shut off from any
consideration of Promotion for doing exacly what ?.I'm not sure the article addressed what
the charge was.
Whatever. But it's entirely Okey Dokey for this White House to confide to a Documentary
Film being made about classified aspects of how the Bin Laden Mission went down.
Meaning Harvey Weinstein { Key Hollywood Obama supporter } was given not just a green light
in his Film,but was allowed access to classified covert aspects of the Bin Laden Mission.
Just who authorized,gave permission and classified info,working almost hand-in-glove
with accounts of the Bin Laden Mission that were supposedly considered OFF LIMITS and
classified Covert.Yet SEALS are now being taken to task and used as Fall Guys.