A year ago, Stuart Scheller fully intended on serving in the Marine Corps for another four or five years.

Now the former Marine officer, who spent years at Camp Lejeune, is on a media tour following a months-long gag order he was under after he publicly decried the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August.

“There’s been a narrative run about me that I didn’t have the legal ability to counter,” Scheller said in a recent interview with The Daily News. “All along, I felt like what I did was right — I felt like there are ways I could have delivered it better, but it was a very tough and challenging situation for me.”