"I will not be silenced": Inside the scandal rocking SEAL Team Four
An exclusive look at internal Navy documents reveals how leadership ignored allegations of racism until SecDef Pete Hegseth's lawyer got involved.
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A previously unreported trove of internal Navy documents reviewed by The After-Action Report details allegations from an enlisted sailor who says he was subjected to racial harassment over three years and stripped of his SEAL Trident in what he describes as a campaign of retaliation.
The 124-page file includes claims that safety violations were selectively enforced against him, disciplinary records were destroyed, and a discrimination c…