[Mark in the Old South]

Why don't you tell them that. To their face.

[jdege]

I've never met those two, but I've had discussions on the issue with service members, more than once.

I had the limits of political expression explained to me when I was in Basic Training, and again in more detail in EOBC. And I've had to discuss those limits, once, with members of my platoon.

There are real limits to the political opinions that service members can express, and good reasons for those limits.