“My dh was. And he was one of them.
That said, what’s your point? That I was lying to fellow FReepers? What the heck is going on at FR?”
Hey, my deepest apologies! I never meant to call you a liar!
If what you say is true (and now I don’t doubt it) then are these guys going to really stand up and defend the Constitution or defend O?
I’m sorry I have had such a defeated spirit since last November I find any good news hard to believe.
Our only hope is that our military will act like Honduras and do what is necessary. Do you get any sense of this?
My dh could have already retired, but he loves being a Marine more than anything else. It’s who he is. I’ll never forget the day that he came to the decision to join the mass exodus during the latter Clinton years. No one we knew respected slick. Everything was reduced - new equipment, weaponry, manpower, flight time, time in CONUS and thus morale. What went up, was hours on duty, lack of spare parts, deployments, decreased proficiency, turnaround time for deployments, stress and the exodus to the civilian world.
After 9-11 happened, many of those same people who had left active duty, returned to defend the nation. They left better-paying and less stressful civilian jobs to come back and reactivate however and wherever they were needed. Here are your true American patriots.
Our American military is sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution. Our military members are so persecuted in this country by our Democrat leadership; it’s frankly nauseating. They have had charges brought against them for defending themselves and their brothers in the field. They see the tone has changed in Washington - and radically.
It is rare to find a person in uniform who lacks moral courage, honor & integrity. So in answer to what I think you are asking - individual members in our military are watching this case very closely. They are supportive of the Major. And not once did they believe that this was brought about b/c it was a way to get out of a deployment. They know exactly why he’s doing it.
Our Republic is set up differently from the Honduran government. Our Constitution does not authorize the militray to remove a member of the federal government.