I don't believe that at all. Surely the order to deploy was not the very first order he received since 20 January 2009.
This poltroon is an barrack-room lawyer who thinks he's found a loophole to avoid getting sent into a combat zone.
Nope, he’s a surgeon, and from my experience with the military, that makes him a very smart man. I don’t see him as a barracks lawyer, because his experience was too great.
I see him more as a true believer who allowed himself to overlook some important mistakes in reasoning.
The order to deploy is directly linked to Obama’s surge in Afghanistan, inshort Obama ordered his deployment and every officer in the chain of command above LtCol Lankin carried out Obama’s orders without questioning his authority to issue them.
Obama can at any time prove he has the complete legal authority as a Natural Born Citizen by producing his original Birth Certificate, in which case LtCol Lankin will still be convicted of disobey a lawful order. That Obama refuses to produce undeniable proof that he is eligible for the office he holds is enough to question weather he can legally order troops into battle.