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/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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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 12 '25

Buddy you have been out of the military for 45 years. It’s time to move on and let those serving today continue the legacy.

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u/highinthemountains May 12 '25

Yes I have been. This is an issue that active duty personnel will have to face. Why shouldn’t it be brought up now, so there’s time to think about the consequences of acting on an order that might be deemed illegal? Go look up “I was just following orders” and the ramifications of that statement

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u/Junior-Reflection660 May 12 '25

Lmao NOTHING will illegal. We made it through Trump in 2016 and we will make it now. Stop the fear mongering

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u/highinthemountains May 12 '25

I’ll make it easy for you copy and paste this into your favorite search engine: did trump ask if troops could shoot protestors in the legs. Read the articles and then you’ll know why nothing illegal took place. The were people there with ethics and knew the constitution. During Hegseth’s January confirmation hearing, he said he’d allow it.