Taliban offensive of 2021 and collapse of Afghan government.

[Pocket Dragoon]

Marine Demanding Accountability Resigns, Living in Van.

Spoiler

Lt. Col. Stu Scheller was dismissed Friday from command of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the original video. In the new one, he claims he is not currently under investigation and that he likely would be allowed to ride out his remaining three years until retirement if he chose to stay silent.

Stuart Scheller posted on LinkedIn
Stuart Scheller posted on LinkedIn

“I don’t think that’s the path I’m on,” he says in the video, shot inside an “abandoned school bus” in eastern North Carolina. “I’m resigning my commission as a United States Marine, effective now … [and] I am forfeiting my retirement, all entitlements. I don’t want a single dollar.”


He suggests that senior military generals would need the roughly $2 million he’d expect to receive in retirement and his other benefits more than he would once he's through with them.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of doing,” he says, though he does not provide further details.

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[No. 7 cat]

For comparison to what could have been, the Afghan Prime Minister that the commies overthrew in the 70s died in his office shooting his gun at the coups soldiers.

Commies ruin everything. Commies like the soviets and Commies like General Mark Millie, the Chairman of the United States joint Chiefs of Staff.

Perhaps Daoud Khan who was Prime Minister to King Zahir Shah, before overthrowing the monarchy and replacing it with a para-socialist Republic. His overthrow was attended with heavy fighting, and although old his family had long been de-facto rulers of Afghanistan, so he had no intention of giving up to upstarts. Daoud Khan or his overthrow brought an end to an era were Afghanistan was on the hippy trail.

His successor Nur Mohammad Taraki, was murdered by men who smothered him, which enraged Leonid Brezhnev, who had pledged to protect him. Taraki did not resist. His successor, Hafizullah Amin thought that the US or Pakistan was attacking and tried to contact he Soviet embassy. Earlier the Soviets had tried to poison him, but as the diners in his residence were all drinking Coca Cola, the poison just caused some short term ill effects. When it became clear that the Soviets were attacking, he died with his boots on, so to speak. The main reason for his overthrow was the murder of Taraki and his aggressively Stalinist policies, claiming that mass violence worked for Stalin. It did not really work for him and he had lost control of most of the countryside with a population of pious Moslems affronted by aggressive socialist policies.

 

[Aidan]

Marine Demanding Accountability Resigns, Living in Van.

Spoiler

Lt. Col. Stu Scheller was dismissed Friday from command of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the original video. In the new one, he claims he is not currently under investigation and that he likely would be allowed to ride out his remaining three years until retirement if he chose to stay silent.

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Stuart Scheller posted on LinkedIn
Stuart Scheller posted on LinkedIn

“I don’t think that’s the path I’m on,” he says in the video, shot inside an “abandoned school bus” in eastern North Carolina. “I’m resigning my commission as a United States Marine, effective now … [and] I am forfeiting my retirement, all entitlements. I don’t want a single dollar.”


He suggests that senior military generals would need the roughly $2 million he’d expect to receive in retirement and his other benefits more than he would once he's through with them.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of doing,” he says, though he does not provide further details.

Viral Marine who demanded ‘accountability' for Afghanistan failures: …

archived 29 Aug 2021 20:26:00 UTC

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I hope he really intends to do good things and applaud him giving everything up but the focus on posting videos to social media is kinda lame. Right now it seems like he's wanting to be a politician.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of doing,” he says, though he does not provide further details.

No one cares, just do it, even if that "it" is just inspiring others to call out the bullshit so vocally. Taking a picture with a chessboard is not making him look cool.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Marine Demanding Accountability Resigns, Living in Van.

Spoiler

Lt. Col. Stu Scheller was dismissed Friday from command of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the original video. In the new one, he claims he is not currently under investigation and that he likely would be allowed to ride out his remaining three years until retirement if he chose to stay silent.

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Stuart Scheller posted on LinkedIn
Stuart Scheller posted on LinkedIn

“I don’t think that’s the path I’m on,” he says in the video, shot inside an “abandoned school bus” in eastern North Carolina. “I’m resigning my commission as a United States Marine, effective now … [and] I am forfeiting my retirement, all entitlements. I don’t want a single dollar.”


He suggests that senior military generals would need the roughly $2 million he’d expect to receive in retirement and his other benefits more than he would once he's through with them.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of doing,” he says, though he does not provide further details.

Viral Marine who demanded ‘accountability' for Afghanistan failures: …

archived 29 Aug 2021 20:26:00 UTC

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He's coming off as a bit of a spastic at this point. I foresee a thread in his future.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

In 90s, when Soviet Union fell apart, a lot of archives were open before lockdown later on

Always wanted to read the reports the Soviet General Staff put out, supposed to be tons of it. Also has to be translated because my Russian is at baby level, and its rusty as that.

People think we hated the USSR and to be fair it was drummed into us to do so but when your dad's BFF is a Russian (who also hated commies) and you go to uni and actually learn Russian history and culture, you can't help but admire the Russian people considering what they've gone through. They cease to the "other", e.g., Godless commies and so on, they're real people who suffer yet live and love like the rest of us. You can admire your enemy's resiliency and unique accomplishments without wanting to competently destroy them, just an oppressive system of government.

I can't help but to compare this to similar events in the USSR, with these caveats: Gorbachev wasn't a drooling senile meat puppet and China is nowhere nearly as competent as the US was although their capitalist vultures have sharper claws and more cunning than we ever did. I think things will play out in a similar way here. Exactly how is what is driving my nail biting.

 

[gaystoner]

He's coming off as a bit of a spastic at this point. I foresee a thread in his future.

eh he is standing by his code and manning up. 'Abandoned school bus' but it looks repurposed. Theres wood flooring on top of a table.

He's also right when he tells his story about an O6 that was relieved of duty while complaining through the proper channels. instead this dude went viral and can potentially slingshot it into bigger things. He also says he doesnt need donations/philanthropist. He's probably financially stable for the rest of his life and at the point many people are but choose to go after money still.

So is his pension worth more than his valor is basically whats been asked of him.

 

[Ghostse]

So…long term what does everyone think the geopolitical ramifications will be?

Obviously this is a big loss for India and win for Pakistan, but beyond that I’m kinda stumped. Iran doesn’t like the taliban but they aren’t incapable of working with them either, the stans are concerned with stability more than anything else(that is if they even have their own agendas separate from Chinese or Russian direction worth noting), uh maybe this inspires jihadists elsewhere?

But then again, jihadists in Syria are stuck in Idlib, jihadists in the Maghreb are a different bunch, and I just can’t really see how this will benefit Al Qaeda or Islamic insurgencies throughout the region in any substantial way.

Win for China.
Even if China does nothing with Afghanstan, just builds a new wall and pretends it doesn't exist, they have won because there is no longer a US military presence in their depopulated west. Glowniggers will have a hard time slipping in. They can retask resources.
Strategic metals are non-starter (though if anyone can pull it off, its China) there is no infrstructure. no infrastructure near by. And that's before you get to the the insane and hostile local population.
No, Afghanistan (until Iran and the Taliban get back to fucking with each other) will aid China & Iran's cooperation.

Effective loss for India. This might actually be good for Indian unity - with the US out, India now has a new front to proxy war with Pakistan.
immediate downside: these covert ops will be run by Poointheloos.

New round of Pakistani infighting; bad news for the compartative moderates currently in charge. The ISI mountain zealots are going to start swinging thier dicks around in 2-5 years.

More rapefugees for Europe, so not much different there other than an increase of Globohomo as they chain migrate in their backwards ass cousins to come get their fundamentalist asses indoctrinized to Global Jihad by saudi-funded mosques. It is a bad time to be a teenaged girl in Europe. Or a preteen boy.

For the US, hard to tell. This may be too far our to affect the midterms in any appreciable way.
Hilariously, this might be the straw that results in Newsom getting recalled in California unless he immediately distances himself from this fuck up, as unable to express displeasure with Biden they might go after Newsom. But he's a party crony, so very unlikely.

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This is a fuck up but important to be honest with ourselves:
The $85B is the 'purchase' cost of the equipment, including the usually 2-3+ of parts and maintenance. Most of that stuff is years old, a lot of it is broken or nearly so and is not coming with the service agreement. The actual value is much less, and part of the reason it was being left with the ANA was it just wasn't worth trying to bring it back.
The M113s specifically are slated for retirement/replacement in the next year or two.

Probably going against the grain of this thread, but I thought this video was worth sharing.

Hundreds killed, Footie most effected.

I am thinking, assholes tried real hard to make it to Sept 11 anniversary, probably sacrificing common sense and throwing caution to the wind to make a nice photo-op. Well, they got it.

August is the end of the Aghanistan 'campaigning season'.
This is one of the reasons the Taliban were so ready to deal for peace: The US would have been out in may, giving the Taliban maximum time to try to fuck with the Government and get things back to the 2001 borders. I would argue this was a flaw in Trump's negotiations, but as we've seen... it wouldn't have made a difference, and probably saved American lives.

IF the government hadn't folded like a bunch of wet tissuepaper, and they had held a majority of the country until Septemeber, they would have had all winter to dig in and get ready for next spring. This is why the Taliban did their blitz when they did: take as much territory as close to the end of the ability to run war ops, so they would have until May to dig in and secure it.

September 11 was just a convenient day close to that time frame. This is (part) of why Biden isn't pushing back too hard, those extra weeks were just for PR.

 

[JosephStalin]

eh he is standing by his code and manning up. 'Abandoned school bus' but it looks repurposed. Theres wood flooring on top of a table.

He's also right when he tells his story about an O6 that was relieved of duty while complaining through the proper channels. instead this dude went viral and can potentially slingshot it into bigger things. He also says he doesnt need donations/philanthropist. He's probably financially stable for the rest of his life and at the point many people are but choose to go after money still.

So is his pension worth more than his valor is basically whats been asked of him.

Folks, this man was a battalion commander, commanding maybe 1000 people. One of the Marines' best and brightest. Officers compete for battalion command slots. To have one of your best and brightest call you out and resign his commission is a reflection upon you and your command structure. We recently had a Space Force lieutenant colonel, squadron commander, be relieved after calling out his command. Once again, officers compete for squadron command slots, especially in sensitive positions like this. This man must also leave the service, request for early retirement denied.

Wonder how many other officers feel the same way but are staying silent since they are so close to retirement. Quite a few, I would guess.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

A while back I mentioned that it was hammered into our heads that the hardest thing we'd ever be asked to do in our careers was to do the right thing and throw everything away or do the wrong thing and live with it.

This guy made the choice.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

From what I hear he's admired by most.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Probably going against the grain of this thread, but I thought this video was worth sharing.

That's a cute human interest story, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't justify staying in, or returning to, Afghanistan. It also doesn't justify the 20 years wasted there either.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Probably going against the grain of this thread, but I thought this video was worth sharing.

No its totally within the grain of the thread, the Offensive of 2021 is over and the Afghan Republic collapsed, we have nothing really to talk about now -- particularly when the US fully leaves on the 31st.

 

[The High Prophet of Truth]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1432103183556415488

 

[Niggernerd]

She had me till the "cHeaTIng"

The election had me till the cheating.

 

[captkrisma]

To clarify some points in the Lt Col's recent video:

1. He said he had a $2mil pension fund he was throwing away. This is 100% accurate. An O-5 would be expected to receive roughly $56,000 per year for the rest of their life upon retirement. $2mil would equal out to about 35 years down the road. He's not just spouting numbers and seems very coherent.

2. He is resigning commission 3 years before retirement. This is also true on several points. After your initial obligation you can resign commission whenever you feel. Seen it up and down the officer ranks, but most stay in a while to pad out a CV. You don't get a pension unless you put in at least 20 years. LTC here is aware of future consequences.

3. He said he was rejecting VA benefits. Regardless of retirement or resignation, anyone who gets out under honorable conditions is granted health and financial benefits from the VA. Again he is aware of future consequences.

4. LTC states that he is ready to burn the institution down should he have to. Expect a LOT of top brass suddenly embroiled in sex scandals in the coming months.

 

[Ishtar]

Given the stupidity and apathy of the American public, I’m starting to believe that maybe the election wasn’t stolen, or it was it doesn’t really matter.

That’s because it’s now very clear elections don’t actually change anything, if anyone does try to change things they get the full force of the system opposing them.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Still no word on the C-130 going down yet?

 

[Blancmange]

Scheller sounds too good to be true. I hope he's not some Qanon-style glow-in-the-dark controlled opposition figure trying to trick non-woke types into quitting the military and divert dissidents away from useful activities.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Still no word on the C-130 going down yet?

Not that I've heard. It sounds like it was likely just a rumor at this point.

 

[Niggernerd]

Scheller sounds too good to be true. I hope he's not some Qanon-style glow-in-the-dark controlled opposition figure trying to trick non-woke types into quitting the military and divert dissidents away from useful activities.

Trying to understand white rage and white supremacy is the least useful activity.