A Marine has now gone viral for airing a Facebook video that demanded senior U.S. leaders to be held accountable for the withdrawal in Afghanistan, specifically the deaths of the 13 American service members and the 18 individuals who were wounded. Less than 24 hours after this individual posted this scathing video where he was merely airing his freedom of speech, this Marine was relieved of his duties even though he had hundreds of thousands of views.

Marine Lieutenant General Stuart Scheller posted this blistering video to Facebook and LinkedIn on Thursday. Almost immediately after that, he was relieved of duty from the Marines even though he had 17 years of duty. This was probably due in part to his questioning of the decision-making abilities of top U.S. military leadership, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Marine Commandant General David H. Berger.

Scheller noted that one of the 13 U.S. service members who had died in these terrorist attacks in Kabul had been an individual whom he had a deep “personal friendship with.”

“I’m not making this video because it’s potentially an emotional time,” Scheller said in the video. “I’m making it because I have a growing discontent and contempt for my perceived ineptitude at the foreign policy level and I want to specifically ask some questions to some of my senior leaders.”

“I’m not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone?’ Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'”

Scheller read a letter dated August 18th from General David H. Berger, the commander of the Marine Corps, regarding the withdrawal or U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Scheller vehemently disagreed with the message of the letter and blamed “senior leaders” for letting the country down.

“The reason people are so upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down,” Scheller stated. “That service member always rose to the occasion and has done extraordinary things. People are upset because their senior leaders let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying ‘we messed this up.'”

Scheller admitted in his video that he had “a lot to lose” by posting it. He noted that he was willing to risk “my current battalion commander seat, my retirement, my family’s stability” to say what he felt he had to say, and provide him with “some moral high ground to demand the same honesty, integrity, and accountability from my senior leaders.”

It was Friday afternoon, a mere 24 hours later, when Scheller announced that he was being relieved of his duties.

“I have been relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence as of 14:30 today,” the father-of-three said in his Facebook post. “My chain of command is doing exactly what I would do… if I were in their shoes.”

“I appreciate the opportunities AITB command provided,” he added.

“America has many issues… but it’s my home… it’s where my three sons will become men,” Scheller wrote. “America is still the light shining in a fog of chaos.”

They had Scheller stationed at the School of Infantry East at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Last June, he had taken over the post as an AITB commander. According to Scheller’s official USMC profile, they deployed him to Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2010.