Posted on 08/27/2021 10:19:21 AM PDT by RandFan
An active-duty Marine officer ripped into military leaders in a social media video Thursday after an ISIS attack outside a Kabul airport left at least 13 U.S. troops and more than 100 Afghans dead.
In the roughly five-minute video, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller upbraided military brass over the way the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has been carried out and called for them to take ownership for the chaotic events of the past few weeks.
“Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’?” Scheller, in uniform, said in the video.
“Did anyone do that? And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?”
Scheller said that "potentially all those people did die in vain” if senior military leaders are not held to account.
"Without that, the ... higher military ranks are not holding up their end of the bargain,” he said. “I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, ‘I demand accountability.’"
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He should be promoted.
I think this is all part of the Soros/Jinping plan.
Two questions that the media is staying away from are how many Americans are still in Afghanistan?
And how many people will die?
Now he will be lucky if he isn't sent to Leavenworth.
Where was the controlled fury when that Marine General briefed yesterday?
He could have been briefing about paper clips for all the anger he showed.
He'll be Hackworthed.
Watch them court martial this guy for publicly shaming his superiors.
That took balls, it also ended his career. 17 years.
To Commandant of the Marine Corps!
It used to seem like an anathema to me. But I hope there is some Lt. Col or Colonel out there who will do what it’s going to take to give an enema to DC. Someone we have never heard their name.
It took one like that to save Chile.
Top 'brass' are afraid to show their faces on TV to answer questions. No 'press conferences' for the 'COWARDS OF THE PENTAGON'...
Part of the heroic O5 / O6s that will never make General.
Years ago a buddy of mine who participated in the initial invasion of Iraqi Freedom, told me a story as US forces were gearing up to head into Fallujah. He said he couldn’t confirm or deny it. Could have been urban legend, could have been the truth.
Anywho....It came down to one thing, Moral Courage.
Military leadership meets in a room to discuss the battle plan to head into Fallujah, knowing that it’s going to be really bad. House to house, door to door.
The psyops and civil affairs folks had been dropping leaflets telling folks to get out, but that also allowed the bad guys to set boobytraps everywhere.
The CO looks around the room and asks each person in it if their unit was ready. One by one they all said they were ready to go.
Until he got to the crusty Delta Force CSM, that said something to the effect of....Sir, everyone in this room is lying to you. I can tell you that my guys aren’t ready. And if my guys aren’t ready then none of the men under the command of everyone else in this room is ready. We need more time and more training to get them ready for what they’re about to walk into.
As the story goes, the operation was delayed 2 weeks to give the grunts time to train, learn and hone their skills.
Guys like that do not exist, very much anymore. If they do, they’re usually run out of the military and police departments. What the country and world gets are Yes Men that have not a care in the world for the 12 Marines and 1 Navy Corpsman that died for no reason whatsoever.
When I look at someone like President Trump, I pretty sure he wants to be surrounded by guys like the Delta CSM. Folks that will give it to him straight and help him reach a decision. Instead, he was surrounded by people like all the Yes Men in that room that day. And, here we are.
But....more important than any of that.....NO MEAN TWEETS!!!!!!
His superiors publicly shamed themselves.
Instead, he’ll be run out of the Corps. He’ll be lucky if he doesn’t get stripped of rank and face UCMJ action.
“one like that to save Chile.”
Pinochet helicopter tours.
Our Marines and those Afghan citizens died in vain, alright.
And NO ONE will be held accountable. Well, maybe the Mess Sergeant on that particular day, but that’s about it. :(
The u.s. military is now a sick woke joke
Lt Col Vindman....../sarc ....
Our military and government leadership are a joke. Nothing more than a pathetic joke.
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