I had dinner tonite with a buddy who is a Lt colonel. He flat out
refuses to discuss politics but I know he’s on our side. I was having fun with “won’t it be great when Trump...” and knowing he wouldn’t do anything but smile.
Yes, there should have been an “Act” after that “Hatch in my original post - your comment brings to mind that probably the prohibition against political activity goes beyond just duty time - I have a nephew who had a fairly high-level administrative job with the sky-marshal program in years past who said he couldn’t even put a campaign sign in his yard or a bumper-sticker for a candidate on his car - pretty sure they couldn’t get a LtCol for smiling at dinner though....