Posted on 11/25/2025 11:55:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, to active duty status in order to prosecute him after what it described as seditious behavior by the former astronaut and decorated veteran.
Kelly, who denies any wrongdoing and who said in a statement he would not be intimidated, joined five other Democrats in Congress with backgrounds in the U.S. military and intelligence community to urge U.S. troops to refuse any illegal orders.
Kelly's November 18 video message came amid heightened concerns among Democrats, echoed privately by some U.S. military officials, that the Trump administration is violating the law by ordering the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers in strikes on their vessels in Latin American waters.
The Pentagon says those strikes are justified because the drug smugglers are considered terrorists.
The Pentagon statement said it was reviewing "serious allegations of misconduct" against Kelly. While it did not say what charges Kelly could face if it took such an extraordinary step, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted remarks on X accusing Kelly and the other lawmakers of sedition.
"The video made by the 'Seditious Six' was despicable, reckless, and false," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X.
"Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of 'good order and discipline.'"
President Donald Trump has also accused Kelly and the other Democrats of sedition, saying in a social media post that the crime was punishable by death.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, sedition and mutiny are among the most serious offenses and can be punishable by death.
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Ever served as one? Because you are dumber than shit. You are dead wrong and unfortunately we won’t get to see Kelly from the yardarm, but reduced, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and time in the bighouse is on the table. He is a dumbass, and if you can’t discern his dumbassery you got no business serving even as an enlisted man.
I remember your type
I'm sure you do, the guys who got things done, made sure their troops get the recognition they deserved, never missed a flight due to AC availability, had the respect of their peers and their men because of how they conducted themselves. Sounds like you weren't of my TYPE. Better for the US that way.
My gut is telling me E-6 or at most E-7 with massive chip on shoulder
Your gut is as hosed as your judgement. No wonder you side with these shitbags. Corps doesn’t have enlisted pilots anymore.
Well you behave like sullen enlisted. Anyhow it’s all moot, none of your dreams of retaliation will befall Mark Kelly.
This whole thing is out of hand.
We already had the Admiral of the task force in Venezuela resign rather than continue to carry orders he felt were not legal.
As far as I am concerned Trump’s orders to shoot these boats out of the water and kill those people was over the top and not necessary. Those boats could have been interdicted and boarded to be searched as the usual custom.
I will remind folks that in 1949 we had the revolt of the Admirals, including Fleet Admirals Nimitz and Halsey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals
None of those Admirals were court-marshled
And always, nothing.
Except when Trump takes decisive action and a leftist judge quickly stops it.
What you do not understand is the dems are working in tandem. What Kelly said is true and is in the handbook. But what isn’t in the handbook is other dems like pritzger and mayor Johnson saying and telling people that what Trump is doing is illegal. You see Kelley and his group is merely planting the seed while the other dems are cultivating it. Then you have the main stream media spreading it.
I see, I will watch it again
In a way, they are doing the old Clinton “It depends on what the meaning of is is.”
If they coordinate their statements artfully, if they each say just enough, but not too much, then they think they can cohesively say outrageous stuff and get away with it because the specific statement from each specific individual is technically just fine. It’s an real art.
Knowing right from wrong. I'll take it while you cower with these pussies trying to destroy the US. You never said if you actually 'served' as an officer, wouldn't think any service would commission a woebegotten POS like yourself. Continue to fight for these mutineers, it suits you.
Got a link or are you like the Fake News and just making it up? If that was indeed his reasoning, he is still on the hook for all them boats and anymore until 12Dec. Lacks the courage of his convictions. Like him, you haven't read LOAC.
Were those Admirals calling for their subordinates to disobey order they didn't like? Not even in the same realm let alone universe.
lieutenant calley was at the bottom of the totem pole and we all know $hit flows downhill, that is why it was all pinned on him. As far as I am concerned, everything that happened in the bush in vietnam, needed to stay in the bush.
Trump gave the pentagon until December 10th to investigate and make a decision on Kelly.
It is so good to see consequences applied to Democrats for a change. Maybe we will see some sanity slowly return.
I can hope, can’t I?
But obey the illegal order for the covid injections.
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