Miller – who admitted to posing in a group photo with the body – said he immediately reported the murder to his superior.

Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Craig Miller testified Wednesday that he saw Gallagher stab the ISIS prisoner “on the right side of his neck, toward the jugular vein.” Gallagher also got in his face and yelled, “If you take me down, I’ll take all of you down.”

Later, Gallagher ordered anyone who had the photos to delete them, MacNeil said. Under immunity, MacNeil told he court he posed in a group photo with the body of the ISIS fighter Gallagher is accused of killing, but that he didn’t know the circumstances of the prisoner’s death at the time. Prosecutors began calling witnesses Tuesday afternoon, starting with Officer Thomas MacNeil, a SEAL who served alongside Gallagher. “This case is not about murder,” he said Tuesday. The witnesses, Parlatore said, all had “an admitted hatred towards Eddie.” He echoed those remarks later in the week, saying “the younger millennial SEALs” were targeting Gallagher because he was “old school.” Gallagher’s defense attorney, Tim Parlatore, told the jury of seven men in his opening statement Tuesday that there was no credible physical evidence for the murder charge against his client.

The case has caught the eye of President Donald Trump, who has expressed sympathy for Gallagher on Twitter and is reportedly mulling a pardon for the SEAL. If convicted of murder, he faces life in prison. Gallagher stands accused of multiple violations of military law, including murdering a prisoner, posing for a photo next to a corpse, shooting at non-combatants and intimidating SEALs who might report his behavior. “The thing floating over our heads,” one SEAL testified, “was that our chief was killing civilians.” Another SEAL testifies that he was the one who killed ISIS fighter

Navy seal being tried for war crimes