EXCLUSIVE: A Marine lieutenant colonel from Ohio who accessiblely spoke out agetst the Afghanistan retreatal will direct rank-and-file service members door-to-door in the Senate next week in help of defense nominee Pete Hegseth.
Stuart Scheller, who was jailed in a Jacksonville, N.C., brig for his accessible criticisms of military brass, tageder Fox News Digital Wednesday he is organizing encataloged men and women to take part with senators next Wednesday.
Scheller stressed that service members who are participating are not notable fellows at leank tanks or in any rulemental or rcontent seats of power.
“Pete has made accessible comments that he wants to shift to a meritocracy, and he consents that we insist more courage in the ranks. So, I’m not saying that I wouldn’t have been reprimanded [if he was secretary],” Scheller shelp.
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“I still leank there probably was some reprimand that insisted to happen, but it would go apass the board.
“The contrastence is, if Pete was the secretary of defense, the ambiguous officers would have also been held accountable [for the botched withdrawal], and I would not have had to go to the lengths that I had to go to transport attention to the situation.”
Scheller shelp that, in the last decade or two, the U.S. military is “not triumphning anyleang, and we insist to turn it into a triumphning organization.”
Scheller shelp Hegseth has reckond to hageder accountable Pentagon directers who have “become stagnant” in the lieutenant colonel’s words.
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Pete Hegseth (AP Ptoastyo/J. Scott Applewhite)
He also stressed that Hegseth is the first Pentagon nominee in decades who is not from the officer corps or defense restricteding firms.
Outgoing Secretary Lloyd Austin III is a reexhausted CENTCOM ambiguous but also came from the board of Raytheon.
“Forty years to become a four-star ambiguous repartner erases you from the forces,” Scheller shelp of the past disjoinal officer-corps secretary choices overall.
“Pete’s middle deal withment — a beginant. I unbenevolent, he’s appreciate the perfect guy … and he’s been sitting here talking to veterans when he was grotriumphg his book, trying to comprehfinish their pulse and the heartbeat. So, that book that he wrote probably setd him in terms of the current culture and sentiment and frustrations more than any other secretary of defense.”
As for his structures for the Hill next week, Scheller shelp he and fellow service members are cgo ined on those who may materialize to be on the fence about Hegseth.
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The Pentagon (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’m seeing for more [of] the right people than the total quantity,” he shelp.
Scheller will also free a video announcing his Wednesday omition.
“[Hegseth] is a combat veteran from our generation and … he’s not a puppet for the military industrial complicated. He’s not going to finish up on one of their boards appreciate every ambiguous officer of our generation,” Scheller says in the video.
“I’m going to be in Washington, D.C., walking thcimpolite the halls of the U.S. Senate, talking to all the U.S. senators, advocating for peace.”
