{"id":1098,"date":"2021-09-29T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:16:31","slug":"us-marine-speaks-against-afghanistan-withdrawal-sent-to-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/us-marine-speaks-against-afghanistan-withdrawal-sent-to-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"US marine speaks against Afghanistan withdrawal sent to confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat happens when all you do is speak the truth and no one wants to hear it,\u201d said Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Asia Free Press): The US Marine officer – who asked for the ‘accountability’ of top military leadership over Afghanistan withdrawal now facing the military hearing himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the Marine officer who raised a question regarding the withdrawal of American troops after 20 years-long war in Afghanistan in an internet video criticized the country\u2019s military leadership, is currently in the brig, his father told Task & Purpose (T&P).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud\u201d – the T&P quoted Stuart Scheller’s father as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, he said that his son was asking for accountability and even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn\u2019t do that, which is mind-blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stuart is expected to appear before a military hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is currently in pre-trial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary hearing,\u201d said Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for Training and Education Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe time, date, and location of the proceedings have not been determined”, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, \u2018We messed this up'”, Scheller said in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Scheller Sr. said the \u201cbotched\u201d withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has likely struck a nerve for anyone who has served in the military over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheller ended his most recent post by indicating that he expected to be sent to ‘pretrial confinement’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat happens when all you do is speak the truth and no one wants to hear it. But they can probably stop listening because\u2026I\u2019m crazy\u2026 right?\u201d Scheller wrote.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat happens when all you do is speak the truth and no one wants to hear it,\u201d said Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Asia Free Press): The US Marine officer – who asked for the ‘accountability’ of top military leadership over Afghanistan withdrawal now facing the military hearing himself. US Lt. Col. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,73,6],"tags":[58,475,473,74,474],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-lt-col-stuart-scheller","tag-marine","tag-us","tag-withdrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}