A Marine lieutenant colonel who was thrown in the brig for posting videos in which he criticizes Gen. Milley and other senior military leaders for their role in the Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty to multiple charges at his court martial
Image: Medical and hospital staff bring an injured man on a stretcher for treatment after two blasts outside the airport in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2021.
Soon after the video was posted, Scheller was relieved of command at the School of Infantry-East at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command,” said Maj. Jim Stenger, a Marine Corps spokesperson. “This is obviously an emotional time for a lot of Marines, and we encourage anyone struggling right now to seek counseling or talk to a fellow Marine.
“He hit a nerve with a lot of people. You screw up, you should admit it,” said a source familiar with Scheller’s defense. Marine officers are taught moral and physical courage, the source said, and that includes “being willing to call it like you see it, and that’s what he did.” As part of the defense, Scheller’s team plans to invoke recent testimony by Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who acknowledged that he spoke with authors of books that quoted him disparaging the commander-in-chief — Trump at the time. The defense plans to argue that while Milley is not being held accountable for criticizing his commander, Scheller is being prosecuted for the same offense.
In the same video, Scheller said the Marine Corps had offered him “a very fair deal,” including nonjudicial punishment rather than court-martial and an agreement to give up his retirement pay and resign his commission. Scheller would accept a general discharge under honorable conditions. He acknowledged that making the video “might destroy that deal.”
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