the good captain should be taught a lesson about the chain of command
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It would appear Captain Rhodes already had the lesson on the chain of command...
She is required only to obey legal orders coming from legal authority...
At this rate she would not even be given an Article 15...
That would read “for disobeying an order when it was your duty to obey” etc...or words to that effect..
The oath she tool to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States would be meaningless if she had no right to ask for verification when she saw a possible breach in the integrity of her chain of command...
The constitution does not read “the guy is president because he was elected by the people and elected by the Electoral College and sworn in twice by Chief Justice Roberts”..
The constitution is very clear on what is required to make a president of the United States and Captain Rhodes wants verification that the president acting as Commander-in-Chief is duly entitled under the constitution to stand in that office..
Yes, Captain Rhodes is acting like a conscientious, law abiding officer of the United States military who is concerned for not only herself but the junior officers and enlisted personal who will rely on her to make life or death decisions based on the orders coming down the chain of command from the person in the White House who has authority over them all as Commander-in-Chief..
It is odd that people do not seem to understand just how this nation and the laws of this nation and the US miltary work...
Quick shout out to anyone else paying attention: The advice you get from one of these is worth exactly what you've paid for it - NOTHING.
There are a number of real attorneys and a fair number of commissioned folks here - I would love to hear from them. I want to hear what happens to an O3 that figures she's smarter than every other person in the mother lovin’ Army.
In the flap that ensued after the Germans called in an American airstike in Afghanistan, the AMERICAN liason said the pilot should have refused the order because civilians were present. Excuse me, but how did he KNOW civilians were present?
And had he disobeyed a direct order, what then?
Yet you have an American Commander SAYING to the international press that he SHOULD have refused.
WTF???
McChrystal is nuts. obama is nuts. They are killing our guys over there for politics. MORE military should be challenging this, not less. It isn’t stupid if the orders are illegal or are PERCEIVED to be illegal.