• treadful@lemmy.zip
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    Soldiers aren’t lawyers either. So you’d have to be super confident in your knowledge of the law to risk discharge or imprisonment.

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      20 hours ago

      The USMC has a chain of command whose job it is to know this shit. They let those Marines down and have stained the honor of the Corps.

      The writing has been on the wall since at least last February or whenever it was trump replaced so much of the DoD top brass. This was always what - in his first term he tried to send troops to Oregon and the DoD correctly told him “no”. Those people are replaced with scum who don’t mind violating the Posse Comitatus Act.

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      Yeah, for most things. But when it comes to fighting your own citizens, it feels pretty cut and dry. But again, this is easy for me to say now that I’m not wearing the uniform anymore.

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        21 hours ago

        I appreciate your honesty. People make it sound so easy to do the right thing but when you’re in a group like the military where conformity is pretty much a matter of life and death, it’s like a very hard decision to make.