Posted on 12/28/2021 10:19:19 AM PST by george76
DoD is the largest, most-bloated government bureaucracy there is
You’d have better luck demanding accountability from the IRS, or your local Department of Motor Vehicles.
Anyone and everyone who ever spent time in Afghanistan knew to keep Bagram. Bagram is the last place to bug out of. What a frickin disaster.
This guy should demand top dollar for every interview. He has sacrificed a lot.
Sure, Scheller made some good points. But this is the guy who blamed everyone above him - including Trump - for just about everything. He has little credibility in my book.
And that’s the real reason for the mandate madness.
Brandon wanted everyone’s focus somewhere else.
He did not have nice words for Trump. He violated the UCMJ and paid the price.
Two reasons...1) your suggestion 2) mail in balloting.
“He has sacrificed a lot”
I agree but kinda brought it on himself did he not?
I understand the frustration but to post videos online while in uniform, and in his office it looked like is a big no no as I understand it.
Never had the privilege of serving in the military myself but I did work for the DoD attached to the US Navy for 31 years and worked very closely with enlisted and officer personnel.
When it came to politics they very very seldom shared their political views verbally....much less posting things online.
IIRC
The USCMJ (the Uniform Code of Military justice) prohibits it.
If that’s incorrect someone please correct me.
Does he get to keep any of his pension benefits or health care?
Correct, this guy had Vindermin syndrone, only really pissed that HE wasn’t listened to.
He knew what he was doing when he posted the videos.
He’s lucky to be out before they are ordered on the American people.
If he worked for a company and publicly badmouthed the company and trashed it on social media, the company would fire his ass. The Marines were his company, and they fired him.
U.S. Marine battalion commander Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was fired on Aug. 27 after he posted a video on LinkedIn and Facebook criticizing the “ineptitude” of U.S. military leadership over the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and demanding “accountability” from those involved.
First of all, the term fired is not negligible in the military. The term relieved of command administratively would be closer to the right terms used.
The UCMJ is a very broad based system that can be used for many cases a non-military person wouldn’t understand. He opened his mouth publicly and attacked the military for something that he most likely didn’t know where the determination of how to with draw came from. So going after the DOD when the decisions were right out of the white house was stupid. If he felt the decisions were wrong, he should have voiced it up the chain until it got to the people who made them. There are ways to handle this scenario without slamming the wrong people in public. And the UCMJ is very able to handle that as he found out. In the regular world the acts he took could have been considered slander or liable. Now he can get his say, but what difference does it make to a president with less than a 40% approval? He wasn’t going to win that battle and never should have fought it that way.
wy69
I don't think the man really understands the scope of what he is asking for.
Yes, he did. If he wanted to speak out, he should have resigned in protest, as others have done in the past.
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