Top US naval commander in Middle East found dead

[Ponietz]

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

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CBS is calling it an apparent suicide:

[link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-stearney-us-navy-admiral-found-dead-apparent-suicide-2018-12-01/|

[Iliyah]

1. Ummmmmm

[brush]

2. Hope this isn't a message being sent. With such an ineffectual coward in charge...

you never know.

[defacto7]

4. A Vice Admiral

In the Middle East...
Commits suicide...
Hmm...

Could be. Maybe not.

[KCDebbie]

5. I've read too many Robert Ludlum novels to swallow this story easily...

And seen too many Americans episodes as well...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. It is BEYOND irresponsible for CBS to be calling the death of

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]

7. Per the article "Defense officials told CBS News they are calling it an "apparent suicide." "

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]

8. Again, until NCIS has had the opportunity to investigate

NO ONE should be making any pronouncements, including DoD "officials" who may or may not know fuck all about what happened. There is a reason why people "who are not authorized" to speak, should STFU.

CBS should know better. They are the ONLY ones reporting it this way.

[nitpicker]

10. +1

[Achilleaze]

9. Sniff, sniff

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]

11. Yankee Go Home!

Inside job?

[ROB-ROX]

12. INSIDE JOB

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]

14. You know nothing about this person's life

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 didn’t commit suicide. But suicide in the military, just as suicude in general, is a serious problem (and he wouldn’t 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]

13. On the apparent brink of war with Iran I find this a very suspect event.

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.