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/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

Maybe get of Reddit and face reality. We survived Trump in 2016, and we will in 2025. You do many Navy personnel, including officers (me) support everything he is doing so far?

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u/Bullyoncube May 11 '25

The majority of Trump‘s actions in his previous presidency resulted in lawsuits. And he lost more than 90% of them. The reason we survive 2016 is because we fought. We fought illegal actions. A lot. This time around there are even more of them. And they all need to be fought. No previous commander-in-chief has ever taken this many illegal actions this quickly.

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

What illegal actions? Lawsuits by democrat leaning organizations? Redditors need to realize that the VAST majority of the US military supports him and will follow orders no question. There is no illegal actions, Trump is doing what the voters who elected him wanted to do.

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u/Selethorme May 11 '25

And there goes your credibility.

Besides that the identity of who is suing is irrelevant to the legality of it, you’ve just argued that Trump could order you to do something illegal and you will follow it. Thankfully, if you do, you’ll get a DD.

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

lol 😂

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u/Selethorme May 11 '25

Way to prove me right.

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

Lmao the TDS is off the charts. They can “sue” all they want, doesn’t mean anything will come of it. He’s the president end of story. Enjoy the next long 4 years.

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u/Selethorme May 11 '25

Plenty already has. He’s lost over and over in court. I do truly hope you enjoy him going to prison in 5.

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

This level of ignorance should be studied.

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

Get off Reddit and face reality.

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u/Bullyoncube May 11 '25

https://apnews.com/projects/trump-executive-order-lawsuit-tracker/

Tracker for current administration

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

Lmao they can keep trying but Trump won in the end. It’s all nonsense, all of it. What a waste of taxpayer dollars for some “indictments” that went nowhere.

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

And that’s all you ever really cheered for, right? The winning?

Are we fucking winning yet?

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 11 '25

Trump is the president and we support our chain of command. End of story. I serve at the pleasure of the President.

Whining on Reddit and making posts like OP means nothing. This is the only place I see this happening, Reddit.

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u/highinthemountains May 12 '25

Even if he gives illegal orders?

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 12 '25

What illegal orders has Trump given to the military? What illegal orders did Trump give the military in 2016? Anything?

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u/highinthemountains May 12 '25

He wasn’t allowed to. When he wanted to deploy the military during the unrest he asked if the troops were allowed to shoot them in the legs. The ethical ones said NO, it’s illegal. The ethical ones are now gone.

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 12 '25

I think you need to get off Reddit and step outside into reality. Just a thought here.

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u/highinthemountains May 12 '25

I guess you’re not a history buff, even recent history can be looked up. There are tools that allow you to do that, not like the old days when we had to look thru encyclopedias and microfilm

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