“The sad thing is the guy who has to replace him in deployment.”
You must have missed the point: No officer legally following orders would replace Cook, since no order issued from National Command Authority is legal until legitimized.
Obama has to prove he’s a citizen, or the legality of all orders issued under National Command Authority are illegal, and as such, no officer can legally follow them.
Calley v. United State (Mi Lai massacre)
The dumbshit who takes his place is willfully following orders he/she now suspects are illegal.
“no officer can legally follow them”
I suspect the courts will say that the civilian authority, i.e. Congress and the USSC, has sworn him in and until he is proven not a US citizen the orders are lawful.