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.
He did not have nice words for Trump. He violated the UCMJ and paid the price.
Does he get to keep any of his pension benefits or health care?
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.
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I don't think the man really understands the scope of what he is asking for.
Here’s the government’s mistake. If they had kept him, they could have assigned him to someplace with no internet, no phone and no ability to communicate. It could have been someplace where he’s the only one there. (The US has some 800 bases worldwide, most of which are not permanently occupied. They’re a fenced area with some buildings and maybe tunnels, an empty hanger and a fuel reservoir.) But by dismissing him, the lost control.
Now he doesnt have to be silent under orders. Have a good life Marine and dont waste it.
He should have not broken the chain.
Thanksfor posting. I will have hubby add him to his facebook feed, go Devil Dawgs!!!!
I think he’s the one who dissed PDJT when this chaos began.