Looks like about 40,000 troops ordered to war are all going to have to file to get anyone’s attention.
Wonder if survivors of a troop killed would have “standing” to challenge TOTUS authority to order their son to his death. TOTUS cannot rescind a death.
It wouldn’t take 40,000 troops to make an impact.
There are about 40 brigades in the army. Around 3,500 soldiers per brigade.
A brigade cannot deploy with less than 95% strength and every deployment is close to that number at the time of deployment. (Pregnant females, illness, etc. This is NORMAL.)
If 50-100 people in every brigade refused to go based on this president, it would cripple the entire military.
KEEP IN MIND, we only have half the brigades deployed at any given time.
SO, at a minimum, we’d only need 50 soldiers x 20 brigades (at least 1,000 men) to refuse to go and a real mess would be made.
The military would combat this by pulling people from non-deploying units to fill the empty slots, but if the efforts were organized so that law suits were filed within a couple of days of the unit beginning to deploy, it would turn commanders’ hair gray with a quickness.
The DOD *has* to court martial this guy. If they don’t, many soldiers will gather the courage to follow in his foot-steps. (Trust me, the bulk of the military doesn’t like this guy.) Quite literally, the army will have set the legal precedence to allow soldiers to strike.
Not only that, but precedence will be set to allow solders to come home from a deployment.
Our army could cripple this administration simply by sitting down.
Better yet, someone who survived a very nasty wound, such as a double amputee. Someone sent over in the last 6 months, on Barry's watch.
Based on his track record, Barry would probably cancel his VA benefits and take back his prostheses.