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Marine officer who blasted leaders over Afghanistan withdrawal now in the brig
Task & Purpose ^ | 9/27/21 | JEFF SCHOGOL

Posted on 09/27/2021 8:52:44 PM PDT by MAGA2017

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the Marine officer whose meteoric rise to internet fandom began with a video criticizing military leadership over Afghanistan, is currently in the brig, his father told Task & Purpose.

“All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud,” said Stu Scheller Sr. “He was asking for accountability. I think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn’t do that, which is mind-blowing.”

He said that his son is expected to appear before a military hearing on Thursday.

“They had a gag order on him and asked him not to speak,” the senior Scheller said. “He did, and they incarcerated him. They don’t know what to do with him.”

After this story was first published, the Marine Corps issued a statement confirming that Scheller has been sent to the brig.

“Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is currently in pre-trial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary hearing,” said Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for Training and Education Command. “The time, date, and location of the proceedings have not been determined. Lt. Col. Scheller will be afforded all due process.”

Scheller first gained notoriety when he posted a video on Facebook and Linkedin criticizing the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the video, Scheller accused senior military leaders of shirking their responsibilities, and questioned some of the command decisions that were made leading up to, and during, the final moments of America’s longest war.

“People are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, ‘We messed this up,’” Scheller said.

(Excerpt) Read more at taskandpurpose.com ...


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To: Dick Bachert

FB stopping me from sharing.


41 posted on 09/28/2021 3:53:30 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: MAGA2017

I’ve seen service members who’ve done FAR worse who are confined for one night and back at work the next day awaiting the investigation.

DUI
Soliciting sex with a minor.
Robbery


42 posted on 09/28/2021 4:19:21 AM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: Steve_Seattle

It doesn’t take a student of history to know what word the zi part of Nazi comes from in the name of the Nazi party.

(NA)tionalso(ZI)alistische.

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

National Socialist German Workers’ Party

Nazi were the archetypal fascists. The only reason fascist is applied to the right is we don’t ram that down the leftists throats every time they claim fascism is a right wing thing. Nazis were leftists. Leftists lean towards fascism.


43 posted on 09/28/2021 4:54:07 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: rfreedom4u

I’ve seen service members who’ve done FAR worse who are confined for one night and back at work the next day awaiting the investigation.

DUI
Soliciting sex with a minor.
Robbery


It’s quite telling that speaking the truth is a far worse crime in the eyes of the state than molesting children. Clearly, we live in a post Constitutional country.


44 posted on 09/28/2021 4:58:33 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Uncle Miltie

Obviously. Question is, what do we do about it? Don’t say the 2022 election. They cheat!


45 posted on 09/28/2021 5:21:05 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I think you are exactly right. You don't lose your First Amendment rights as a soldier, sailor or marine.

In addition, if the standard in the UCMJ is "undermining the chain of command," then how can his actions "undermine" a chain of command that has already publicly displayed gross dereliction of duty and illegal partisan activity against a duly elected President?

46 posted on 09/28/2021 5:58:55 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: lodi90
Clearly, we live in a post Constitutional country.

Post-Christian. The Constitution couldn't survive anyway if the majority does not uphold traditional Christian values like honesty, loyalty, fair-play and hard work.
47 posted on 09/28/2021 6:05:01 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: lodi90

Maybe so BUT he fired any and all officers who were totally pro America in lieu of socialists like him


48 posted on 09/28/2021 7:10:01 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
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To: Machavelli

A relative of mine concluded, “Civil War.”


49 posted on 09/28/2021 7:29:14 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Civil War 2 is over. We lost. Concentration camps up next.


50 posted on 09/28/2021 7:35:25 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto

The rear guard action is gonna be hell.


51 posted on 09/28/2021 7:50:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: jjotto

CW2 was never fought. Our Quisling generals went AWOL and the enemy took the political battlefield without a fight. Those we elected are sleeping with the enemy to this day.


52 posted on 09/28/2021 7:52:36 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Steve_Seattle
What has happened to Western Civilization?

Hey Steve, if you are still in Seattle, you can tell us.

53 posted on 09/28/2021 9:45:05 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Islam---At war with Western Civilization for 1400 years)
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To: Dick Bachert

Thank you for that link.


54 posted on 09/28/2021 10:10:27 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: lodi90

What is clear, that given enough time, the Republicans will
wind up at the Democrat destination. They’ll be a little
late, but they’ll get there.

I know the RP leadership doesn’t think that is true, but if
they would look at things objectively, they couldn’t deny it.

What do we stop the Democrats from doing? And at this stage
what have we rolled back, or are striving to roll back?

It’s like gun control. The Republicans can seem to find all
sorts of reasoned new laws to sign onto.

Under the name of reasoned gun control, they’ll buy of on
lots of things.


55 posted on 09/28/2021 2:51:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Biden = Green Light to > China, N. K., Russia, M/E Terrorists, FBI, CDC, MSM, & the Left...)
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To: Steve_Seattle; wardaddy

The Comintern, the Communist International, was established in Moscow in 1919, two years after the Bolsheviks seized power.

The Soviet Union was all about spreading Communism worldwide. Nguyen Sinh Cung attended Comintern training in 1923; we called him Ho Chi Minh.


56 posted on 09/28/2021 3:13:30 PM PDT by Pelham (No more words, now we fight)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“It doesn’t take a student of history to know what word the zi part of Nazi comes from in the name of the Nazi party.”

No, but a student of history would know that having Socialist in its name had no special significance.

Read Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and you can find out how they came to have that name.


57 posted on 09/28/2021 3:32:43 PM PDT by Pelham (No more words, now we fight)
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To: Pelham

So meth addicted (otc pervatin - The fuel of the Nazi war machine ) anti smoking vegans who want to control your life with a homosexual SS who also happen to want to kill all the jews, don’t describe the left?

Alright then. I am dumb. Reading is hard!!!

At least one of us is and has bought the post WWII propaganda and not read the source documents for themselves and has bought the party line. The right are the fascists... Brian Stelter told me so with my confirmation coming from Don Lemon.

/S

I friggen hate to use Wikipedia as a source but anything like Mises or actual documents are not likely to get trough to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program

BTW, the dims were the slave holders and enslaved blacks a second time. You probably don’t grok that either.


58 posted on 09/28/2021 3:53:23 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

through... though a trough is appropriate.


59 posted on 09/28/2021 3:56:08 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: MAGA2017

Locked up pending an Article 32 hearing? I never heard of such a thing.


60 posted on 09/28/2021 4:06:04 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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