“You are correct about salute and obey. But you have to have an order first. The President extrapolating on twitter is not an order to anyone.”
Bullshit. He issues a FULL PARDON to Gallager, and the Navy starts a new proceeding against him. So the commander in Chief Tweets this:
“The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin. This case was handled very badly from the beginning. Get back to business!”
Then the Navy decides to conduct disciplinary proceedings against them unless they get written orders? That is insubordination. They know exactly what he wants and they are doing the opposite. And not because they are unclear. It is because they do not agree.
I think the next written orders they will get are their commission revocations.