I read that in the link you provided, I don't think it is true. Even as a reservist you can not pick and choose your orders. You can certainly request a specific assignment, but you can't have orders in hand and then decide you don't like them. I may be wrong, but when I was in the service we had reservist that served along side us and they were subject to the same rules we were; And I sure as hell could not get orders changed just because I did not like them. Otherwise I would not have spent 4 years in Altus Oklahoma.
It seems that last May, Cook volunteered for active duty (that is, the military didn't call up him or his group for active duty) in Afghanistan. The military has an opt out clause for reservists who volunteer for active duty: they're allowed to change their mind up until the day of deployment.
As a former Oklahoman, I had to laugh at your statement! Altus, OMG!
They could have given this field grade officer a direct order to deploy, and had he disobeyed what would have been a lawful order on its face, he should have been subjected to court-martial. The Army would have been entirely within its rights to discipline and make an example of this officer, should others have the same idea.
So he should have been disciplined. He wasn’t because Obama and/or his minions exerted IMPROPER COMMAND INFLUENCE from the very top of the chain of command. They had to have the deployment orders revoked so MAJ Cook would not have access to discovery and expose this lying crypto-marxist bastard for the rotten counterfeit POTUS that he is. Hussein does not want him disciplined, and court martialed since it exposes HIM to revelation.
The next step in Cook’s legal saga would have been to give him a direct order to deploy. Such an order would have been lawful on it’s face. Had he disobeyed than the Army would have been within it’s rights to court martial him.
How can commanders maintain order and discipline with this sort of interference? What will happen when the NEXT round of deployment law suits ensue???