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And I don't give a damn if he did criticize President Trump or not, this Marine has had a stellar career serving America and hopefully will excel in his next endeavor when this is all over.
I’m not sure what his MOS is, or where he’s served, but being in “fight or flight” mode for who knows how long has serious effects. That in conjunction with the colossal fubar of Afghanistan could certainly cause someone to “lose it”.
He, and others, have numerous reasons for anger.
What is the price of mutiny on a ship? Answer-you walk the plank. He’ll get off easy comparatively speaking. It will be more a message for the others. Don’t go that route. What that means is that a ship captain has the right to take his ship down to the bottom of the ocean with everyone on it.
Whatever happened to John Kerry?
THEY CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/06/19/commie-cadet-sends-vulgar-message-on-his-way-out-of-the-army/
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So I'm trying to get caught up on the brouhaha over statements regarding the recent Afghanistan debacle made by one Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller that got him tossed in the brig. We all thought that was unjust, and somebody organized some fund-raising that pulled in over $2 million dollars.
Then a Breitbart article claimed that, prior to his arrest, Scheller
...issued a lengthy post on Facebook in which he criticized various political and military figures, including former President Trump and Gen. Michael Flynn...
In the same post, Scheller criticized former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He also scolded Generals Michael Flynn, David Petraeus, and James Mattis.
I'm kind of disappointed that he's not a fan of Trump, but so what, that doesn't change the fact that jailing him is a chickensh*t move. It's just the left once again doing whatever it can to stifle dissent.
But, that aside, it looks like Scheller doesn't appear to like anybody.
Read the original Facebook post that got him in trouble. It's all over the map. He has many opinions about many things, and none of them favorable.
The guy who he's reminding me of is Frank Serpico, the police whistleblower who exposed the NYPD culture of corruption back in the late 60s and early 70s and got shot in the face for his efforts. It took guts for him be the lone guy standing up for what's right, but the more I read about him, the more I thought he's just one of those guys who wants to be different from everybody else. I guess "contrarian" would be a close enough word to describe guys like that. "Loose cannon" is another. It's like they draw a circle around everybody else and then make sure that they themselves are standing outside the circle. Because it's somehow in their nature that they just want to be different.
In my opinion, Serpico's incorruptibility stems from his contrariness, and not the other way round.
Frank Serpico never really fit in to the NYPD culture. But I think that's because he really doesn't fit in anywhere. Just after 9/11, I happen to stumble on the blog he was writing at the time. I have long since lost the link. He sounded like a real nutcase. Although, to be fair, being a resident of New York City, he might have been traumatized by the attack on the World Trade Center. But You have to ask Serpico/Scheller, "ok, so you don't like the guys we have now, any of our leaders, fine, so who do you like? What would you prefer?" and they have a hard time answering that question. Although Serpico did support far left loon Ramsey Clark's candidacy for the NY Senate seat back in 1974.
Although I'd like to note that by the standards of the Democratic Party of today, Clark would be a moderate.
Anyway, I think Scheller comes from the same mold. Such men speak in terms of lofty ideals, and nothing ever seems to be good enough for them. I suppose that can be a good trait to have, but leaving it unchecked makes for a difficult life, tailor-made for frustration, depression, and perhaps even despair.
I suspect that if one of our crack national journalists (stop laughing) interviewed the other guys in Scheller's unit, who know him and work with him day to day, it would be apparent how much of an oddball he is.
So who cares what Scheller's politics are? It doesn't matter. He just wants to run his own course. I wish him Godspeed on whatever journey he's on.
He can rot in H*ll for his Facebook comments about Flynn and Trump.
Agree. He knew the rules and broke them intentionally so now he gets what he deserves. All about his conduct not about his beliefs.
What could be an interesting problem for the prosecution is that they have to name the person who is the complaining witness. In a civilian criminal trial, the complaining witness must testify if called by the defense.
What superior officer is going to be the complaining witness?
How many other officers could be called as witnesses who also criticized the military leadership regarding the withdrawal from Afghanistan? It also appears that members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified that they were critical of Biden in the manner with which the withdrawal was conducted; and did so in front of Congress. Do they really want to push for the LTC’s court martial.
In the end, he will be allowed to resign from the Army with an honorable discharge; general discharge in a worst case scenario.
If he's looking for leniency, he probably doesn't have the right lawyer. I know Tony Buzbee. He's an excellent lawyer, but he's a major grandstander, and as far as I know, not experienced in criminal defense or military law (he was a Marine officer, but not a JAG). I'm sure he has knowledgable lawyers on his team, but if Buzbee's involved, it's to make a scene, not work out a deal.
He will never go hungry. He is this generation’s Ollie North.
contempt toward officials;
disrespect toward superior commissioned officers;
willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer;
conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.(That is a subjective catch-all)
Consequences? Reduction in grade, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, other than honorable discharge.
Devil's Island is a tourist trap now but it doesn't have any mosquitos unlike Kourou...should be enjoyable
Agree. The good Ltc. knew what he was getting into. He as much said so. And I hope they only, at most, cashier him out with loss of pay and allowances. No Brig time.
And I agree with you about not caring that he is adverse to Trumps help as that would certainly make him a political pawn.
I have been a bit surprised with his actions. He knew what would happen. I am only hoping his reasoning process hasn’t been degraded by his multiple combat deployments.
He and his family are in my thoughts and prayers.
This may not be a popular sentiment here on FR, but I found his criticism of the withdrawal from Afghanistan to be highly disingenuous. Our involvement in Afghanistan was a fiasco for most of this guy’s military career, but I never heard a peep out of him until after we had fled from that dump.
This is a GCM. He’ll get about 3 years confinement and a dismissal from service, which for an officer will be the same as a dishonorable discharge.
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.