![]() “This is obviously an emotional time for a lot of Marines, and we encourage anyone struggling right now to seek counseling or talk to a fellow Marine,” said Marine Corps spokesman Maj. The Marine Corps on Friday announced that Scheller was relieved “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command,” according to Task & Purpose. “I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: I demand accountability.” “I have been fighting for 17 years,” Scheller concluded. ![]() Scheller wrote on Facebook that he had been “relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence.” Facebook “I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever,” Scheller added, “but I am saying: 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’? 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?'” “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,'” he said. Stuart Scheller went viral Thursday after he posted a four-minute, 45-second video to Facebook in which he appeared in uniform and ripped into military leadership following the devastating suicide bombing at Kabul airport, which killed 13 US service members and at least 169 Afghans. WWII vet breaks down, says this isn’t the ‘country we fought for’Ī Marine Corps battalion commander said he was relieved of his duties Friday after he posted a video demanding “accountability” from senior leaders for failures in Afghanistan. Marine veteran has emergency landing on North Carolina highway ![]() Rhode Island woman posed as Marine with cancer to get $250K in donations: prosecutorsĪir Force promises change after Marine family’s dog died during PCS move ![]()
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