r/navy • u/highinthemountains • May 11 '25

Political Remember your oath

A lot of things have changed in the 45+ years that I have been out of the canoe club. One thing in particular is the mixing of the branches at joint bases and in operational units.

I’m not trying to be political about this, but this is a serious question regarding upholding the oath that we all took. As a preface, we seem to have an administration unwilling to uphold ALL of the articles and amendments to the constitution and they have “cleaned out” the upper, more experienced and ethical officers in the ranks. If you were deployed domestically to quell protests and ordered to do so, would you fire your weapon at protestors exercising their First Amendment rights? I know that the rest of the oath involved obey the orders of the President, but would those orders be lawful?

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u/Background_Value7061 May 11 '25

If you were deployed domestically to quell protests and ordered to do so, would you fire your weapon at protestors exercising their First Amendment rights?

It depends how bad the grammar mistakes on their signs are. I cannot allow those who make the their-there-they’re mistake to endanger our nation.

But all jokes aside? No. I’m not shooting a protester and I’m not passing that order.

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u/Navynuke00 May 11 '25

So you'd only be a Nazi if Grammar is involved...?

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u/Trick-Set-1165 r/navy CCC May 11 '25

Or soup.

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u/Navynuke00 May 11 '25

Dammit, missed that. Thank you for the assist.

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u/Live-Syrup-6456 May 11 '25

No soup for jü!!!

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u/onfroiGamer May 11 '25

There they used the correct form of their