[Pearls Before Swine]

Too coincidental.

Probably, but he refused an order. That's a perfectly plausible and defensible cause for discipline, regardless of the reason or the more global issues.

[wastoute]

Some DOD jobs require the person filling the position to be a Reservist that is deployable. If he was in one of those jobs it was kinda foolish for him to "raise the stink" if he wasn't willing to get stinked on. OTOH, if his position did not REQUIRE he be a deployable Reservist he needs to see his Union Rep ASAP. He will fight this successfully in that case (if he wants to).

Μολὼν λάβε

[null and void]

Probably, but he refused an order. That's a perfectly plausible and defensible cause for discipline, regardless of the reason or the more global issues.

Huh?

His company didn't order him to go.

Brought to you by the same people who think it's perfectly A-OK for the government to fire the CEO of GM?

[SC Swamp Fox]

Probably, but he refused an order.

As I read it he didn't refuse the order to deploy, he filed suit to find out if it was a lawful order.

DOD's response was to cancel his military deployment and to inform his employer that he was no longer welcome at his civilian job at McDill Air Force base, effectively firing him.

[TSgt]

Probably, but he refused an order. That's a perfectly plausible and defensible cause for discipline, regardless of the reason or the more global issues.

Common sense and sense of duty isn't welcome here. I tried explaining this to others on other threads and was flamed. I guess it is easy to support the destruction of another for your cause as long as it doesn't impact you or your life.

[woops]

But don’t they have to be LEGAL orders?

Read Orly Taitz’s Injunction.

[SeminoleSoldier]

After due process, sure.

[DMZFrank]

So he should have been disciplined. He wasn’t because he exerted IMPROPER COMMAND INFLUENCE to get the orders revoked so MAJ Cook would not have access to discovery and expose this lying crypto-marxist bastard for the rotten counterfeit POTUS that he is. Hussein does not want him disciplined, and court martialed since it exposes HIM to revelation.

The next step in Cook’s legal saga would have been to give him a direct order to deploy. Such an order would have been lawful on it’s face. Had he disobeyed than the Army would have been within it’s rights to court martial him.

How can commanders maintain order and discipline with this sort of interference?

[Jackson57]

At what point did he refuse an order? He wasn’t due to deploy until July 31. His orders were pulled prior. You can’t discipline someone for what they MIGHT do ...