Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller

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The Charlie Kirk Show · The Afghan Whistleblower Leading a Hegseth Counterattack · 16 Dec 2024 podcast

It got real weird, Charlie. After I made that video, I was fired the next day immediately. I knew that I was risking my career. If you watch that video in its entirety, I call the shot. I say, I know I'm risking my career, my retirement, my family's stability. It did end up losing really all three of those things. But there should have been an investigation that took place.

But like I told you, I was shot right into the political realm. The cardinal sin in the military is making your bosses look bad. And so I was fired immediately. And I was told at that time that if I just shut my mouth, that the generals would take care of me.

So the best case scenario, I would be hidden in a cubicle and make PowerPoints for some general officer for the next three years limping towards my retirement. And I just knew I couldn't live my life that way, number one. And number two, I fully believed all those comments I made and no one was addressing the content of my statements. And that's what really deeply bothered me.

So it became this fight, you know, and I continued to fight all the way to the end.

Yep. So Matthew Lohmeyer, there's a lot of people out there advocating to get rid of woke generals. And I think there's a lot of generals that need to get cleaned out. Historical precedence for George Marshall after World War One is probably the best example. That being said, just going after woke ism is actually attacking the symptom, not the root cause.

The root cause is that you have general officers that it takes 40 years to make a four star general. Every evaluation for an officer in the military is a subjective evaluation, i.e. I'm trying to please my boss and get a higher evaluation than my four peers.

And so the people that are four-star generals have literally pleased their boss for 40 years more so than all of their peers that are competing for the same jobs. And I'll tell you what, it should be based on the best performers, but pleasing your boss and being the best performer diverge at certain places in your career. Anyone that's worked in a bureaucracy understands this.

And so the reason why wokeism is so prevalent, one, because some of the moves that President Obama made, but two, more importantly, the general officers are so fickle, they care most about self-advancement and they'll do whatever is the topic du jour and they have no backbone.

I mean, when Carter Hamm was in Germany and Benghazi took place and he was watching on screens Americans fighting 1V1000 and he had eight military options and he was told to stand down and he did. Why? Because he's conditioned to please his boss. And that's what all general officers do. I think what Pete Hegseth needs to do is he needs to get into the military.

He needs to clean out a lot of the archaic leadership, but then he needs to implement a performance based system.

Because at the end of the day, if you've got the best performer, if I as an infantry officer go against another infantry officer and the best one wins and whatever that competition is, then all other things go away because the focus of the military should always be on lethality and winning.

You look back to the last generation that won a war. It was World War II, and we didn't have the national security establishment then. World War II is when we literally built the national security establishment that we have today. It went through the National Security Act of 44, 47, 50. And then finally, what structured what we have now is the Goldwater-Nichols Act after Vietnam.

Where we really went off the rails was Vietnam. I mean, Korea was still a generation of World War II vets, and the rigid structure of the current DOD was not in place yet. What happened was we created this military industrial complex. We created this system of officers that are self-pleasing.

And in Vietnam, what we did after our loss, instead of going back and holding the general officers accountable, we let the general officers sing the song. that it was the draft and the drugs, and it was the junior service member. And what we really did was we empowered these general officers that failed.

I mean, if you go look at someone like Khe Sanh, where we lost hundreds of thousands of lives, and then it was strategically important one year and then not the next year. I mean, these are huge failures that no general officers were held accountable. The massacre in Vietnam, My Lai Massacre, if you look at that, only company-grade officers were held accountable, no general officers.

So somewhere along the way, starting with Vietnam, we stopped holding general officers accountable. And we need to get back to that. And I think this is such a breath of fresh air when we're talking about President Trump and Pete Hegseth.

Yeah, there's only a few things that the drones would be up there for. And at the middle of the night, it really dwindles it down. So I'll start with it's the government absolutely knows what's going on. We have such a robust capability that, first of all, they know what's going on. Second of all, what they're doing is really the deeper question.

The best guess that I can come up with is it's some type of CBRN, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear detection system, or they're just testing capabilities. But it is disheartening that the government, John Kirby, no one is being transparent about it. I think it's just another head shake in the long list of things that don't make sense.

We the people probably deserve answers, especially with the coverage this is getting. But my position is that it's the government.

Yeah. Like I said, there's only a couple of reasons you would do it. One would be a training op. Two would be you're looking for somebody, which you probably wouldn't do at night. Or three, you're using a different type of detection capability to try and find something like a seaburn capability. So if they're actually employing it, that would be my best guess.

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