The unmaking of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller
By Philip Athey
Mar 7, 10:13 PM
Read Part 1:“The making of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller.”
With an admirable career, many saw Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller ending up with stars.
But on Aug. 26, 2021, in the immediate wake of a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 11 Marines, one sailor and one soldier, one video posted to social media effectively ended his 17-year career.
In a four minute and 45 second video posted to Facebook and LinkedIn, a uniformed Scheller called for accountability and aired his “contempt” for those in government and the military who made the decisions during the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan and that day’s deadly result.
“The reason so many people are upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down,” Scheller said, noting that those service members always have risen to the occasion. “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.’”
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