Green led the command of roughly 3,000 SEALs, which includes the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, best known as SEAL Team 6, during a period of unprecedented public controversy.
SEAL Team 6 did not conduct any investigations based on the allegations.Ī spokesperson for Naval Special Warfare directed questions about personnel changes to the Pentagon. Later, SEAL Team 6 commanders received internal reports that Howard’s men were using the hatchets to hack dead and dying militants. When he was a squadron commander at SEAL Team 6, Howard solicited donations to procure expensive, hand-made hatchets for his operators, and encouraged them to “bloody the hatchet” on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Intercept previously reported. Howard is currently in command of Special Operations Command Central. Wyman Howard III, a former commander of SEAL Team 6, according to two people familiar with the Navy’s pick. He will likely be replaced by another two-star SEAL admiral, H.
Green’s departure is unusual in part because it comes as his current tour length of two years is being extended to three, meaning he has effectively declined a final year in the job and won’t seek a third star.
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