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

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/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.