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Pete Hegseth: “The only guy that was fired was Stu Scheller, the colonel…”

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Published | Video Starts at 41:26

And then you have an institution which has become totally immune from accountability. Why would you expect anything else? And why would you expect accountability coming out of that? You wouldn't. I mean, The only guy that was fired was Stu Scheller, the colonel who stood up and said what everybody was thinking. Yeah, he. He got drummed out, you know, quickly and. And put on trial, basically. So it was. It. As I was writing the book, I was obviously those. (41:26–41:31)

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Asserts that Colonel Stu Scheller was the only person fired for speaking out about the Afghanistan withdrawal.

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