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...."I was instructed by persons in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera,"....

Well, PFC England, just about everybody there were persons in higher rank, even your boyfriend.

Will your lawyers allow you to be a bit more specific???

"Well, PFC England, just about everybody there were persons in higher rank, even your boyfriend. "

Good one! ;)

I found the wording a bit odd, myself. Persons of higher rank?? Implying right out loud, that it was not an order from the chain of command . . . The military works with the chain of command, through the chain of lawful supervision. A "person of higher rank" but not a supervisor, does not go around creating chaos by instructing lower ranking persons not in their chain-of-command to do something . . . at odds with, for example, the legal orders the soldier would be getting. And a PFC or Specialist does not go around following the whims and suggestions of "persons of higher rank" who are NOT in the chain of command!

Also, note: "instructed", not ordered. She would NOT have gotten into trouble for defying an "instruction" from a "person of higher rank" not in her chain of command!!