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Yeah. I never served, but my understanding, both from common sense and an acquaintance who did is that you have to follow orders, or lose your job. How in th
by loxias 5y ago
Yeah. I never served, but my understanding, both from common sense and an acquaintance who did is that you have to follow orders, or lose your job.
How in the world are we supposed to have an effective military if we can't rely on the bedrock principles of following orders and respecting the chain of command? I don't know which to be more upset with, the officer or the activist judiciary.
- Nullabillity 5y agoPeople "following orders and respecting the chain of command" is how we got the Ukraine situation.
- loxias 5y agoI agree that service members shouldn't follow illegal orders, especially including orders that amount to war crimes. Comparing an attention hungry American officer trying to make a political point to Russia using cluster bombs on civilians feels a bit of a stretch to me though. Perhaps Godwin's law even. ;-)