{"id":21267,"date":"2022-03-08T03:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/08\/the-unmaking-of-lt-col-stuart-scheller\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:27:28","slug":"the-unmaking-of-lt-col-stuart-scheller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/the-unmaking-of-lt-col-stuart-scheller\/","title":{"rendered":"The unmaking of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Read Part 1:<\/i>\u201cThe making of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller.\u201d <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an admirable career, many saw Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller ending up with stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a four minute and 45 second video posted to Facebook and LinkedIn, a uniformed Scheller called for accountability and aired his \u201ccontempt\u201d for those in government and the military who made the decisions during the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan and that day\u2019s deadly result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reason so many people are upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down,\u201d Scheller said, noting that those service members always have risen to the occasion. \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.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video, which took like wildfire and to this day has garnered more than one million views on \u00adFacebook, was a clear violation of the military\u2019s Uniform Code of Military Conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\t