I think atrue patriot should have done his duty as an officer and a doctor and provided the troops with an experienced combat surgeon first, and then after he got back from his tour, disobeyed his orders. I think the men come first, then challenge the orders.
The tour orders were the ones most directly related to the authority of the CinC. The judge in this court ignored this point and declared him irrelevant.
He chose not to deploy rather than keep pursuing this while deployed because he didn’t think it was fair to have this stuff going on when he was supposed to be giving the wounded his full attention.
He pursued this for 2 years before he was ever given deployment orders so this was not about trying to keep from being deployed, nor was it about Obama’s politics, since his pursuit of this was while Obama was still a primary candidate.
The long and short of it is that Judge Lind ruled that the President is totally irrelevant to the lawfulness of combat operations. Serious doo-doo.