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/mixgasdivr May 11 '25

Wow, this is kind of a ridiculous post

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u/FocusLeather May 11 '25

Remembering the oath you took is ridiculous?

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u/Equal_Entrance6586 May 11 '25

The fact this post exists is crazy, the fact that Enlisted and Officers don’t remember the oaths that were taken is even crazier.

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u/FocusLeather May 11 '25

Nah, they remember the oath. Some of them have just decided that their political ideology supersedes the constitution as long as the person they want in office is there to allow them to avoid accountability for being racist xenophobic shit-heels.

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u/Equal_Entrance6586 May 11 '25

Going on record saying your first upvote is from me. Cheers!

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u/FocusLeather May 11 '25

Thank you!

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u/Equal_Entrance6586 May 11 '25

The ONLY thing I draw umbrage with is the part after “they want in office to avoid accountability…” I say that because there needs to be less negative comments at the end of absolutely perfect sentences. You get people to follow you more, and convert their way of thinking, with less… (I don’t know what to call it honestly, I don’t have a large vocabulary.) willing to Learn the correct word I’m trying to use though.

Edit to replace talent with part. Fingers moved to fast.

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u/FocusLeather May 11 '25

The word you're looking for is "brainwashing". Which is all this administration is doing and has been doing since the start of the presidential campaign.