[jamese777]

The clouds could part, a choir of angels could sing, and the mighty hand of God could descend with a gold plated copy of Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and Lakin would still be guilty of missing movement and disobeying the orders of his brigade commander. Obama’s status does not enter into his guilt or innocence on the charges filed against him.

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Its kind of amazing and depressing all at the same time just how many people posting here have absolutely no concept of the military chain of command.
Lieutenant Colonels don’t get orders from the Commander in Chief. They get their orders from their direct superior commanding officer.

[OldDeckHand]

"Its kind of amazing and depressing all at the same time just how many people posting here have absolutely no concept of the military chain of command."

Yep.

[El Gato]

They get their orders from their direct superior commanding officer.

where does their direct superior camanding officer get them?

Besides, the chain of command is not that simple. One sometimes gets orders from several levels above ones direct CO. Transfer and movement orders are often like that. Especially orders for individuals as opposed to units.