Top US naval commander in Middle East found dead
Source: CNN
The top admiral overseeing US Naval forces in the Middle East, Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, was found dead in his residence in Bahrain on Saturday, the Navy said in a statement.
While his death is being investigated, officials say there is no evidence of foul play at this time.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/us-naval-commander-stearney-dead/index.html
CBS is calling it an apparent suicide:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-stearney-us-navy-admiral-found-dead-apparent-suicide-2018-12-01/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)brush
(57,034 posts)you never know.
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)In the Middle East...
Commits suicide...
Hmm...
Could be. Maybe not.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)And seen too many Americans episodes as well...
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Scott Stearney a suicide until NCIS has had the opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation. Common decency has taken a hiatus in this country and we are not the better for it.
Shame on you CBS.
dflprincess
(28,431 posts)Whether CBS should have quoted it or not is questionable but CBS is not calling it a suicide, the Defense Department has personnel who are.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)CBS should know better. They are the ONLY ones reporting it this way.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)with a lying, cheating republican draft dodger serving as "commander-in-chief" this has the whiff of yet more republican skankitude. Inevitable.
Where was Jar Jar K.?
Maxheader
(4,393 posts)Inside job?
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)I think all senior members with important jobs would have to be both mentally and physically healthy? I do not think generals or admirals have a very stressful job. I think an enlisted person has to do MORE work then any officer. I do not think anything will be reported since this may have been an INSIDE JOB........I wonder what he had discovered and what he wanted to SAY???
onenote
(44,195 posts)and what might cause him to take his own life. Nor, I expect, do you know anything about the pressures of being a senior military officer deployed to a highly volatile area with a crazy commander in chief and his clueless son in law making policy judgments.
Maybe it will turn out he didnt commit suicide. But suicide in the military, just as suicude in general, is a serious problem (and he wouldnt be the first senior military officer to take his own life) and it seems rather jarring for you to be so cavalierly dismissive of that fact.
Ford_Prefect
(8,191 posts)I am not inclined to accept it as read. The event may be dressed up as a suicide but I have serious doubts that the Admiral's exit was unaided by those with agendas towards confronting Iran.