US Marines officer relieved of duties after video demanding accountability over Afghanistan
by Martin Pengelly from on (#5NW5C)
Stuart Scheller criticised perceived ineptitude' of US senior leadership in social media post
A US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who posted a video demanding accountability from military leaders over the evacuation of Afghanistan has been relieved of his duties and will leave US service, the Marines and the officer involved said on Friday.
Stuart Scheller posted his video to Facebook and LinkedIn on Thursday, the day 13 US service members, 11 of them Marines, and reportedly as many as 170 Afghans, were killed in a suicide bomb attack at the airport in Kabul.
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