CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Seeing a man in pain, confused, and frustrated by events on an Afghanistan battlefield far from here, Marine Reserve judge Col. Glen R. Hines delivered his verdict and sentenced outspoken Stuart Scheller, a Marine lieutenant ...
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller pleaded guilty Thursday at a special court-martial trial here to blasting his chain of command in a string of social media posts that exposed a generational gap between the Americans who fought ...
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller blasted broadsides at the Pentagon brass on Thursday, Oct. 14, more than 5,000 blistering words hurled at senior leaders he portrayed as unaccountable martinets responsible for two decades of ...
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Outspoken Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller admitted he's guilty of all charges against him, according to documents leaked to Coffee or Die Magazine Thursday morning, Oct. 14, shortly before his special court-martial trial began ...
With the last chance to get jabbed or get out coming as soon as Nov. 2, close to 430,000 service members — most of whom are in the Army — are in danger of missing the military vaccine deadline, according to the latest Pentagon data. However, one ...
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller will plead guilty Thursday at a special court-martial trial, only 48 days after the Marine released an incendiary video indicting the brass for a lack of accountability for failed operations in Afghanistan, his criminal ...
Starting Oct. 1, the Marines began judging their marksmanship in a new way. Marines will no longer shoot their qualifying courses of fire in the traditional order of prone, kneeling, and standing positions. To qualify as riflemen, Marines now face a ...
A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to pass information about American nuclear-powered submarines to another country, according to the Justice Department. In court documents made public Sunday, Oct. 10, the Federal ...
When the Army announced this past summer that 60 men who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu would have their valor awards upgraded together, the news struck home for a band of veterans of the fight who have long felt overlooked. Men of the 10th ...
This article was originally published on Military.com on Oct. 8, 2021. Follow Military.com on Twitter. U.S. special operations forces and Marines have been deployed to Taiwan and secretly training its military for at least a year as China becomes ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On Marcus Ross’ first skydive, he didn’t have the advantage of watching his Air Force Academy classmates go through their pre-jump routines: Stand in the door, jump, arch. When his 13-jumper class took off for their first ...
A Marine Corps investigation into the drowning of nine service members in an Assault Amphibious Vehicle accident last year found COVID-19 restrictions and troops being spread thin over multiple commitments played a role in the deadly accident. The ...
Less than a day after the Marines freed Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller from the Camp Lejeune brig, the brass in North Carolina ordered him to stand trial by special court-martial for his social media posts demanding senior leaders be held accountable for ...
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In a stuffy office covered with white-and-black Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan flags and full of Taliban foot soldiers sipping cold tea, Akif Muhajer sits poised and composed, every bit the administrator he now is as the ...
The Marine Corps nixed a detention hearing at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 5, and agreed to release outspoken Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller from pretrial confinement. The Marines’ retreat came after Coffee or Die Magazine ...
On behalf of all media, on Tuesday morning, Oct. 5, Coffee or Die Magazine urged the US Marine Corps to halt a secret military hearing to decide the fate of Stuart Scheller, the outspoken lieutenant colonel and combat veteran who urged accountability ...
Pending a court martial hearing, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, who's locked up as an alleged flight risk, telegraphed to the Pentagon and Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 4, that he’d agreed to a deal that would usher him out of the Corps and avoid a ...
This article was originally published on Military.com on Oct. 1, 2021. Follow Military.com on Twitter. The military has settled in for what could be a long, expensive and politically volatile mission housing refugees who fled the end of the ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine and Turkey recently signed a deal to construct a joint facility on Ukrainian soil for the upgrading and maintenance of armed Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles, marking the latest collaborative venture in the two countries’ ...
It’s important to understand that your odds of being attacked by a ninja are low, but they’re never zero. Our nation’s most elite flying unit, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, recently learned this lesson the hard way. A man armed ...
In a ceremony at Fort Benning, Georgia, 18 Army Rangers who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 received Silver Stars Friday, Oct. 1, for their actions in the mission known as Operation Gothic Serpent. The 15-hour gunfight that followed the ...
Eighteen veterans of the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment who fought in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu will have their combat awards upgraded in a ceremony at Fort Benning Friday morning, Oct. 1. For each, a valor award from the battle will be upgraded to a ...
Americans began fielding shotguns on the battlefield during the final stretch of World War I and with great effect. German soldiers, who had regularly utilized chlorine gas on their enemies, found the wounds left by the weapons to be egregious and ...
A Marine commander who catapulted to national notoriety last month by recording YouTube videos critical of the Afghanistan withdrawal is in pretrial confinement in the Regional Brig aboard Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 hearing. Marine Corps Lt. ...
Under an overcast sky on an urban warfare range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, a shooter waits for an instructor’s signal. “Let’s go!” the instructor shouts, sprinting toward a nearby building and quickly up a flight ...
Afghan evacuees living on US military bases are accused in three separate assaults against children and women, including a group that is said to have assaulted a female US service member in Texas. The incidents have raised issues about security ...
The top two military leaders from the Pentagon advised President Joe Biden against removing all troops from Afghanistan ahead of last month’s chaotic withdrawal, but Biden never seriously considered the suggestion. Secretary of Defense Lloyd ...
A Swedish researcher released an unusually clear video on his Twitter account Monday, Sept. 27, that uses digital video tricks to tease out terrifying details in a 5-year-old video of a suicide truck bomber — or SVBIED — attacking a Kurdish Peshmerga ...
“Hitting him where he ain’t” has been a basic fundamental of warfare since the beginning. Accomplishing that on larger and larger scales has been a primary objective of military leaders ever since. Victory after achieving an “envelopment” is almost ...
When James Gonzalez heard Gen. Kenneth McKenzie admit in a live news conference that a drone airstrike last month in Kabul had not hit a terrorist but instead had killed 10 civilians — including seven children — he was dumbfounded. Gonzalez spent ...
