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Lt Col Stu Scheller was thrown in the brig and then drummed out of the US Marine Corps for publicly condemning the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Almost four years later, he is part of the team investigating the Biden administration’s handling of the evacuation that led to the deaths of 13 US troops in a suicide attack at Kabul airport. “Ironic that I will be investigating who should be held accountable for Afghanistan,” Lt Col Scheller, who was handed a senior role at the Pentagon by Donald Trump, said this week. It shows just how much Washington has changed...

Marine Lt. Col Stu Scheller became famous for demanding top brass be held accountable for the SNAFUs leading to the deaths of 13 service members during the withdrawal from Afghanistan.He was court martialed and forced to resign from the Corps due to his demand for holding senior officers accountable for mistakes such as not keeping Bagram Airbase operational. He has now been selected to serve under Sec. Def. Hegseth as a Senior Advisor to DOD for Personnel and Readiness. Video: https://youtu.be/o2sYXo3mmD0

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told Congress that he would not resign after presiding over the Afghan withdrawal debacle and that he saw no reason to. Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller sees it differently and said so in a video that not only got him relieved of his command but also thrown into jail and held incommunicado Scheller felt his superiors should be held accountable for what Milley admitted was a strategic defeat and said so publicly and so far is the only to pay a price. Schiller admits he deserved to be fire and that he...