My dad was one of the 82nd Airborne "pacifying" the Dominican Republic in 1965, and he showed up in Chicago in 1968 to say that being a US soldier means taking an oath to the Constitution, not your commander or a President. Against all enemies.

April 15, 2025 - 01:52 UTC

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True for officers, sadly not true for enlisted. Enlisted oath includes "obey the orders of the president."

It puts our soldiers in a very bad place.
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There is a damn fine reason Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22.

In any human system, will exist within it, at some point, at some time, a bloody great gotcha that keeps people from experiencing life without too many nasty, awful, stupid and vile bits from somebody higher up the ladder than you.
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www.army.mil/values/oath.html
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Doesn’t mean you have to follow those orders.
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It also says to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic".

If the President is violating the Constitution and the rights of Americans, that makes him a de facto "enemy domestic" not to be obeyed. 1/
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