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To: MayflowerMadam

Unfortunately, while active-duty military, you have no recourse when given a direct order.

More typically, refusal to follow the same, results in things arguably worse than getting kicked out. Like Military Prison.


16 posted on 04/11/2025 11:01:14 AM PDT by Delmarksman (Integrity is like Virginity, once you give it away, it's gone forever.)
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To: Delmarksman
Unfortunately, while active-duty military, you have no recourse when given a direct order.

So said the Nazis who were tried at Nuremberg.

One cannot be compelled to obey an unlawful order.

(That none of these service members were tried under the UCMJ for disobedience of a lawful order is all the evidence we need of how "lawful" such an order could have been.)

52 posted on 04/15/2025 1:38:07 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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