Aug. 28, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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| Guys, watch this video of a 17-year service member finally saying enough is enough, just asking for simple accountability. | |
| And remember that that today will get you fired. | |
| In a few hours, this viral video got this gentleman fired. | |
| Now, don't forget, if you're one of the woke generals, you can go and try to troll Tucker Carlson on TV. You can talk about white rage and critical theory and how important it is to make us a stronger fighting force to learn those things. | |
| But you can't Ask a reasonable question about an incompetent disaster that's going on. | |
| Whatever happens, let's make sure we help this gentleman. | |
| I'll offer myself up. | |
| We gotta take care of guys like this because this is the type of person that should be running our wars. | |
| This is the type of person that should be in charge, not the incompetent morons that have been there for so long doing nothing other than making America lose, other than putting us last place behind China and Russia while they focus on their woke nonsense. | |
| This is a true hero. | |
| This is American. This is speaking truth to power. | |
| Watch it. Good evening. | |
| My name is Lieutenant Colonel Stu Scheller, United States Marine Corps. | |
| I'm the current Battalion Commander for Advanced Infantry Training Battalion. | |
| I've been in the Marine Infantry for 17 years. | |
| I started my tour with Victor-18. | |
| It's the current unit that's doing perimeter security, dealing with the mess that's going on there. | |
| You can see open source reporting that there was an explosion and some people were killed. | |
| I know through my inside channels that one of those people that were killed was someone that I have a personal relationship with. | |
| Won't go into more details because the families are still being notified. | |
| Not making this video because it's potentially an emotional time. | |
| Making it because I have a growing discontent and contempt for my perceived ineptitude at the foreign policy level. | |
| And I want to specifically ask some questions to some of my senior leaders. | |
| And I'll say, as a person that's not at 20 years, I feel like I have a lot to lose. | |
| If you play chess, you can only see two to three moves out because there's too many variables. | |
| I thought through if I post this video, what might happen to me, especially if the video picks up traction, if I have the courage to post it. | |
| But I think what you believe in can only be defined by what you're willing to risk. | |
| So if I'm willing to risk my current battalion commander seat, my retirement, my family's stability to say some of the things that I want to say, I think it gives me some moral high ground to demand the same honesty, integrity, accountability from my senior leaders. | |
| And so I want to start with... | |
| We'll just use the Marine Corps. | |
| We'll just stick with the Marine Corps. | |
| So in the current fallout of Afghanistan, a lot of Marines were posted on social media, and in response to that, the Commandant published a letter, which is the Service Chief of the Marine Corps. | |
| And I want to read from it. | |
| Dated 18 August, so only a week ago. | |
| The Commandant Sur, you wrote, some of you may be struggling with a simple question. | |
| Was it all worth it? We want you to know that your service is meaningful, powerful, and important. | |
| You fought for the Marine to your left and the Marine to your right. | |
| You never let them down. Then you go on to say that, you know, if we're struggling, we should seek counseling, which, you know, I get it. | |
| People have killed people. | |
| I've killed people and I seek counseling and that's fine. | |
| There's a time and place for that. | |
| But the reason people are so upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down. | |
| That service member has always rose to the occasion and done extraordinary things. | |
| 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 this up. | |
| If an 05 battalion commander has the simplest live fire incident EO complaint, boom, fire. | |
| But we have a Secretary of Defense that testified to Congress in May that the Afghan National Security Force could withstand the Taliban advance. | |
| We have chairmen of Joint Chiefs, who the commandant is a member of that, who's supposed to advise on military policy. | |
| We have a Marine combatant commander All of these people are supposed to advise, and I'm not saying we've got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, the strategic air barriers, before we evacuate everyone? | |
| Did anyone do that? | |
| And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, we completely messed this up? | |
| I've got battalion commander friends right now that are posting similar things, and they're saying, you know, Wondering if all the lives were lost and if it was in vain, all those people that we've lost over the last 20 years. | |
| And he goes on to say that we're all part of a chain. | |
| While every link may not be tested, the strength of the chain is only as strong as each link and you got to be a good link, something like that. | |
| And what I'll say is, from my position, Potentially all those people did die in vain if we don't have senior leaders that own up and raise their hand and say we did not do this well in the end. | |
| Without that we just keep repeating the same mistakes. | |
| This amalgamation of the economic slash corporate slash political slash higher military ranks are not holding up their end of the bargain. | |
| I want to say this very strongly. | |
| I have been fighting for 17 years. |
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