Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard."I have yet to find a single military official who was in the audience today who thought tha...
Note the oath the enlisted take specifically says they will follow the orders of the President.
That’s not the one that matters.
The officer’s oath does not include that, specifically for this reason:
I’m 99% sure that these oaths apply across the board regardless of branch, because they apply to more than just commissioned officers.
Foreign and DOMESTIC
Yeah they both say that.
Only one also says they’ll do what the POTUS says.
I’ve already seen the taking point showing up on the right that the “… and domestic” part applies to the “antifa terrorists turning our cities into war zones and besieging federal (especially ICE) buildings.”
I really hope that GOs don’t take the oath lightly. When I taught that lesson to my cadets it was a serious conversation and usually involved stories about commanders I knew who got fired or court-martialed for everything including extra-marital affairs, to belittling subordinates, to fabricating illegal orders (and then breaking international law). I hope it doesn’t come to it, but I imagine that a military court would be less partisan than our current courts have been.