{"id":66694,"date":"2016-07-06T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66694"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:55:19","slug":"seal-trainee-death-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66694","title":{"rendered":"SEAL Trainee Death Ruled Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn\u2019s written before <em><a href=\"valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65714\">about the recent death of Seaman James Derek Lovelace<\/a><\/em> during SEAL training, as well as about some <em><a href=\"valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65792\">initial reports regarding the incident<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 For those who\u2019ve forgotten:\u00a0 Lovelace died during SEAL training this past May, during a swimming drill, after being \u201cone-on-one\u201d with an instructor.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego medical examiners have determined that Lovelace died by drowning \u2013 and have <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/07\/06\/navy-seal-trainees-death-ruled-homicide-by-drowning.html\">ruled the man\u2019s death a homicide<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 There is surveillance video of the incident; that footage apparently was considered when making the\u00a0 determination.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not competent to comment on the behavior shown in the surveillance video, nor have I viewed it.\u00a0 However, the newest linked article contains a verbal description of what was observed to happen during the incident.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let someone who is competent in this area make the call on whether classifying the death as a homicide is apropos or not.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll say this much:\u00a0 either way, IMO if the description is accurate someone (or multiple someones) can kiss careers goodbye \u2013 perhaps justifiably.\u00a0 And some of them may also be looking at criminal charges; NCIS has yet to determine whether criminal charges are warranted in connection with this death.<\/p>\n<p>Truly sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn\u2019s written before about the recent death of Seaman James Derek Lovelace during SEAL training, as &hellip; <a title=\"SEAL Trainee Death Ruled Homicide\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66694\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEAL Trainee Death Ruled Homicide<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}