If this were another country, we would be speculating about the loyalty and whereabouts of all the major combat commanders.
If you look closely, almost all of Trump's inner circle are tied to the Marines. The Marines are special. And the President is their direct commander. Trump has chosen wisely and has a loyal team. All others are suspect.
Yes, but in this country we know that every 0-8 and above who received stars after 1/20/2009 and before 1/20/2017 was at least acceptable to Obama and his minions. That’s nine years.... how many men and women make 0-8 and remain on active duty for another 9 years? It’s not that it never happens, but it’s not common. Remember, Clinton had 8 years to weed up and coming conservative field grade officers out in the ‘90s. The junior officers of the ‘90s are the 0-6s of today, and the field grade officers of the ‘90s still on active duty are the 0-7s-0-10s of today.
I’m not sure I would trust anyone at 0-7 or above not to be part of the “resistance” to Trump unless I knew them personally. I’m sure most of them aren’t, but you can’t trust them implicitly the way you could trust the military before Clinton got rid of so many senior officers after taking office in the early 1990s.
I wonder sometimes about how the populace of corrupt empires viewed the situation. No form of government or organization (or law) is immune to corrosion and corruption. The fact that a system looks good on paper doesn't make it good in practice.
And too, much of the modern "combat commander" is in the field of propaganda, administrative agency, and courts of law.