
The Man in the Arena
From Fighting ISIS to Fighting for My Freedom
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Narrated by:
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Eddie Gallagher
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Andrea Gallagher
About this listen
On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher - a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq - was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a successful deployment fighting ISIS in Mosul, Iraq. At the end of that deployment, Chief Gallagher was named the number-one chief at SEAL Team 7, put in for a Silver Star for valor on the battlefield, and listed for promotion to Senior Chief. The junior members whom Chief Gallagher had called out for cowardice and ineptitude in combat decided they couldn't let any of those things stand and escalated minor complaints into false accusations of stabbing a captured ISIS fighter and shooting noncombatants that gained international attention.
Despite a corrupt investigation and a deceitful prosecutor who would be removed from the case for spying on defense attorneys, Chief Gallagher was found innocent on all major charges, and freed from prison. But only after his family was put through hell, and President Trump intervened to allow Chief Gallagher a fair trial in a military justice system designed to break and persecute our country's warfighters.
While heavily covered in the media, the full story of how a war hero was railroaded and nearly sent to prison for life for crimes he didn't commit has never been told. Chief Gallagher did not testify at his trial and has spoken in little detail about how this travesty came about. Until now. A shocking, raw, tell-all expose that pulls no punches, and identifies each and every bad actor in this surreal story. Book includes QR codes that link to videos of the accusers’ NCIS interviews, trial audio, and text message threads highlighting the plot to take Chief Gallagher down.
"People always tell me, if our life was a movie, no one would believe it." (AG)
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Andy Symonds (P)2021 Ballast BooksWhat a book, uncovers the lies and deception.
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Salute you Eddie
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Gods plan
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Shocking true story
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Really enjoyed this book
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An uncomfortable story about how a few loud enough people can have a catastrophic impact on a macro-level, and how the expression "evil prevails when good people do nothing" is yet again ever so true. A good reflection of how western society has evolved into "mob-justice" and defamatiion and accountability as a phenomenon is seemingly an "endangered species".
After hearing the audiobook, I bought the hardcover book as well.
Highly recommended.
Real life
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you can forgive the errors in edits where they've missed removing repeats etc as it's spoken by the actual people involved, they aren't voice actors after all.
it's evident that Eddie went from being a target of revenge to a political football . bruised egos still wanted him punished right till their last. His wife and brother truly went to war for him as he'd gone to war for them.
The legal team he had at the end were absolutely stellar.
This lays out everything the biased media reports where failing to cover.
detailed account of a shameful prosecution
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I have to say it is truly shocking what happened
It's very well done with the people involved reading thier parts.
really makes you feel the emotion.
I m halfway through as I write this review and won't stop till the end.
It seems like his higher ups and the people accusing him were but cowards hiding amongst hero's.
A Brits reaction
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It doesn’t take away from the story per-say, but is very irritating and could have easily been rectified.
Great story from the horse’s mouth, but some poor editing.
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Excellent story of about a truly shocking event
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