The troops are disobeying this order, but it is NOT BS. This is McChrystal. The same McChrystal who tried to order them to patrol without body armor.
The General needs to get his ass out in the field and walk “point”.
Not in this life.
But he DID go to one of these insane villages to “investigate” so-called civilian casualties and while he was there, surrounded by guys with weapons, he did strip off his own vest for a photo op. I am telling you the man is crazy and belongs in a rubber room, NOT in command of a single troop.