{"id":690955,"date":"2021-08-27T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690955"},"modified":"2021-08-27T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T21:05:15","slug":"i-have-been-relieved-for-cause-marine-ltc-fired-after-demanding-accountability-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-have-been-relieved-for-cause-marine-ltc-fired-after-demanding-accountability-on-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Have Been Relieved For Cause\u2019: Marine LTC Fired After Demanding Accountability On Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-have-been-relieved-for-cause-marine-ltc-fired-after-demanding-accountability-on-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690955&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Marine-Leader-e1630082325813.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller announced Friday that he had been \u201crelieved for cause\u201d after he posted a video demanding accountability on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Scheller shared a Facebook post saying that, as of 14:30 on Friday, he had been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/16\/space-force-commander-relieved-from-duty-marxism-critical-race-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relieved of duty<\/a> \u2014 and he noted that he would have taken the same action if he were in the position of his superior officers. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/27\/i-am-willing-to-throw-it-all-away-demand-accountability-17-year-marine-veteran-risks-career-viral-video-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018I Am Willing To Throw It All Away To \u2026 Demand Accountability\u2019: 17-Year Marine Veteran Risks Career In Viral Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all my friends across the social networks. I have been relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence as of 14:30 today,\u201d Scheller began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy chain of command is doing exactly what I would do\u2026 if I were in their shoes. I appreciate the opportunities AITB command provided,\u201d Scheller continued, saying that he would not be offering any other statements or interviews until he had officially left the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/27\/rick-perry-texas-courthouse-wont-follow-biden-order-lower-flag-fallen-marines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica has many issues\u2026 but it\u2019s my home\u2026 it\u2019s where my three sons will become men. America is still the light shining in a fog of chaos,\u201d Scheller went on to say that he saw a bright future ahead for himself even if it no longer included the Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to a new beginning. My life\u2019s purpose is to make America the most lethal and effective foreign diplomacy instrument. While my days of hand to hand violence may be ending\u2026I see a new light on the horizon,\u201d he concluded.<br \/>\u201cSemper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scheller\u2019s video calling for accountability went viral as he said, \u201cPeople are upset because their <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/republican-rep-jody-hice-defense-sec-lloyd-austin-removal-space-force-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">senior leaders<\/a> let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying \u2018we messed this up.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying we\u2019ve got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say \u2018hey, it\u2019s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone,\u201d he said, throwing his own rank on the table \u2014 proverbially speaking \u2014 when he added, \u201cI think what you believe in, can only be defined by what you\u2019re willing to risk. So if I\u2019m willing to risk my current battalion commander seat, my retirement, my family\u2019s stability to say some of the things I want to say. I think it gives me some moral high ground to demand the same honesty, integrity, accountability from my senior leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;I Demand Accountability&#039;: Marine Speaks Out About Afghanistan Disaster\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3Qie2oZKW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller announced Friday that he had been \u201crelieved for cause\u201d after he posted a video demanding accountability on Afghanistan.Scheller shared a Facebook post saying that, as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}