The Marine who went viral after speaking out against the leaders of the military for the flawed Afghan withdrawal is in the brig awaiting a hearing.
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is “currently in pretrial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary hearing,” Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Training and Education Command, told Task & Purpose.
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“The time, date, and location of the proceedings have not been determined,” he added. “Lt. Col. Scheller will be afforded all due process.”
Scheller gained notoriety last month when he posted a video on social media calling for accountability from military leaders for the way the Afghan withdrawal occurred, including the ISIS-K terror attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and more than 170 Afghan nationals.
“The reason people are so upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down,” he said in the first of his viral videos. “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 up.'”
Scheller’s father, Stuart Scheller Sr., defended his son’s comments, saying he was looking for “accountability.”
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“All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud,” he told Task & Purpose. “He was asking for accountability. In fact, I think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn’t do that, which is mind-blowing.”
A day after Scheller published his first video, he posted an update notifying the public that he had been “relieved of duty” and “will probably do some jail time.”
