Posted on 10/06/2021 3:27:49 PM PDT by PROCON
Now that sir, got me literally chuckling out loud. Nice one.
My pleasure. :)
And that's what set him off. If you haven't already, watch to the videos he's posted, he is quite critical of that withdrawal fiasco and the Commanders involved, it will clear any questions of why he has gone to such extreme lengths.
“Lt. Col. Scheller is guilty mainly of criticizing superior Officers.”
I once told an officer what I thought of him and it got me 30 days restriction, 30 days extra duty, loss of 1/2 month’s pay and a reduction in rank.
he was almost home free after the first outburst when his CO told him simply to shut it down. Where he got in trouble was breaking a direct order.
The thing is, if he was smart(er), he would have had a wife or relative deliver his grievance list instead of doing it personally. Wives and relatives aren’t subject to direct orders and the best he would have gotten was a ‘get your house in order’ order that wasn’t very enforceable.
The Top Brass lost The War on Terror by not convincing Biden not to pull out the 2,500 Troops. The poor excuse of a general, Four Star General Milley, should have resigned loudly and dramatically. He did not. He is a disgusting military man and I would not follow him into battle. Why should any Trooper follow these cowardly weak leaders into battle?
I once told my XO if he touched me again I’d rip his arm off, shove it down his throat and pull it out his ass. Since there were witnesses, he couldn’t do a damned thing.
I saw his statement. I don’t think he is guilty of any of that. The UCMJ should not be hid behind.
contempt toward officials;
You mean like Pelosi and milley contempt for the CIC.
disrespect toward superior commissioned officers;
Ditto
willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer;
Ditto
dereliction in the performance of duties;
Ditto
failure to obey an order
Just like the Pelosi and milley MUTINY against the CIC ?
or regulation and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
Ditto.
So, in other words charge the man with crimes they commited in broad daylight ?
Strawberries
It was the strawberries that gave them away !
( wink towards bogart)
And all that from an Article 15. Right?
Yes, but what he did isn’t mutiny.
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It most certainly is MUTINY.
MUTINY is usurping a superior officers authority and instructing juniors in rank to follow his orders and not the superior officers orders.
It doesn’t require any further acts, the upsurption is the act.
I stand corrected
I was thinking if milley.
You are correct.
He usurped no one and did not instrict junior ranks to disobey a superior rank.
I apologize.
They should throw the book at him and Milley.
He hasn’t lost anything, yet. The legal wrangling will go on for at least two years. During that time, he will still be on active duty and receiving all his pay and benefits. If he gets anything other than a dishonorable discharge when the legal proceedings are over, which again will take over two years, he will get his retirement pay and benefits.
Pre-trial proceedings, including discovery the government will fight, depositions, many motions, etc, will take at least two years. A half-ass defense attorney can stretch it out at least that long. No court martial panel will give him a dishonorable discharge. He will have the last laugh.
Turns out the suicide bomber who killed the 13 soldiers was freed from prison by the Taliban. Can’t wait for the defense attorney to raise that point. Biden’s decisions and the actions of the higher chain of command caused their deaths.
Don’t think that will go over well with a court martial panel, or the public.
I remember G. Gordon Liddy once spoke about being accused of “contempt of court.”
He had replied to the judge, “Contempt is too inadequate a word for my true feelings.”
Lt. Col. Scheller should say, “My disapproval of those senior officers at the Pentagon cannot possibly be summarized using the limited term “contempt.”
He might as well give them both barrels of the 12 gauge. They hate the man and he will receive no leniency by groveling.
They are making a big mistake and will turn the man into a martyr well known to millions of patriots and permanently enshrined in history. He will be a heralded man of courage long after the four-star generals seeking his scalp are forgotten by history.
These are, after all,hypocrite generals who openly demonstrated contempt for President Trump who was constitutionally their Commander in Chief. In fact, these generals demonstrated total contempt for the U.S. Constitution and the sovereign people who elected President Trump.
They will also send a strong message to potential recruits that the brass cannot take a truthful rebuke and certainly cannot even win a war against illiterate, goat-herding barbarians in pajamas. Nor can these generals even preserve American advanced weapons (paid for with billions of dollars earned by hard-working American citizens),NOR destroy those weapons before a U.S.retreat so they do not become the means of death of our own troops.
Military leaders this incompetent, contemptuous and vindictive have no right to DEMAND respect from anyone.
My father was a career Air Force officer.
I have lost all respect for the military leadership of the USA.
Well said, and I completely agree with your summation.
Having served 50+ years ago, I can't remember a time when a field grade officer like Scheller, or of any service, had the balls to call out his senior leadership and rightfully so.
I also hope the best for him in his upcoming court-martial.
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