Unaccountably in our Military

I just finished reading the book by Pete Hegseth entitled “The War on Warriors” which I found extremely interesting and informative of the desperate situation of our military forces’ readiness and capability at the present time.? One significant item that Pete discussed was that if a Private loses a weapon, either in combat or training, the Army conducts a massive search and investigation and if not found, ultimately throws the book at the Soldier who would be deemed accountable. ?He went on to cite his unit in Iraq had lost an M240B machine-gun during a complex IED ambush, which was followed by a massive search. And that was a perfect segue into the fact that no specific general officer, was held accountable for the loss of many billions of dollars of military equipment such as 10,000 air to ground munitions; 40,000 military vehicles (including 12,000 Humvee's); 300,000 personal weapons; an unknown number of communications equipment; 42,000 pieces of Night Vision Devices; 17,500 pieces of explosive detection equipment and 73 aircraft that are now in the hands of an avowed Islamic terrorist enemy. That’s what happened in August 2021 in Afghanistan with a total abandonment of Bagram Air Base, and included 13 precious lives lost, Allies abandoned, and America humiliated because of this utterly devastating retreat.? The SECDEF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Service Chiefs and additional errant GOs avoided any semblance of accountability. Not one General was fired for this strategic level blunder, and not even one demoted or reprimanded. ?The only person that was fired was Lt. Col Stuart Scheller, a true Combat Marine, who had the courage and resolve to speak out about this true lack of accountability, – and he was promptly FIRED. I encourage you to read his book, as its very well written ?and certainly from the heart.