Seven members of SEAL Team Six have been punished for supporting development of a video game released last month, according to a U.S. military official.
The SEALs worked as paid consultants for Electronic Arts, the company that made "Medal of Honor Warfighter." They received letters of reprimand and forfeited half of their pay for two months. The SEALs do not face jail time.
The official did not say what, if any, information the SEALs revealed by participating in the video game's development. However, a written statement from Deputy Commander of Naval Special Warfare, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli, indicates this is more about making an example of these sailors after a string of high-profile SEAL products. "We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as Sailors in the United States Navy. The non-judicial punishment decisions made today send a clear message throughout our Force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability," Bonelli wrote.
The military official did not know how much the SEALs were paid.
The video game hit store shelves on October 23. In a press release, EA said "Medal of Honor Warfighter" was "written by actual U.S. Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas," and that it "features a dotted line to real world events and provides players a view into globally recognized threats and situations letting them experience the action as it might have unfolded."
What i now sound crazy but i think that is never gave a military unit with the name Navy Seals i think its a MU which is used for publicity or something like that. When this is true than you know who Obama Bin Laden true was ......
Well if they did run it through their chain of command and requested to have this job (because you can't have two jobs in the Navy unless you run a chit), then it's not so much their fault as it is their immediate chain of commands fault because it was they who allowed the SEALs to have that job. But if the SEALs didn't run the chit then yea pretty much their in the wrong. But trust me I have seen sailors get in-trouble for so many more stupid things that wasn't their fault.
