The National Navy SEAL Museum has named a new chief executive officer, a retired admiral who played a key role in a disastrous mission in Afghanistan that is the subject of a Hollywood feature film now in production.
Retired Vice Admiral Timothy Szymanski will oversee the SEAL museums in Fort Pierce, Florida, and the downtown San Diego branch that opened last month.
In March 2002, then-Commander Szymanski was the operations officer for SEAL Team Six during a bloody mountaintop battle known as Roberts Ridge that led to a posthumous Medal of Honor for Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman. The events of Roberts Ridge and Szymanski’s reported efforts to block Chapman’s Medal of Honor continue to divide the special operations community more than two decades later…