Operation Dessert Storm
The Green Buffets
Meal Team Six
They're southern, so Gravy Seals is a good fit.
Y'all qaeda
Considering their obvious weakness for truck stop cheese, I prefer "Y'all Queso"
Pretty sure they were already failing to meet standards when the tax payer flew them up there for no reason to begin with. Could have saved a lot of transport dollars with a preflight check in. Hell, a zoom call would have outed some of them!
These guys? They look like troops, not generals. Don't recall ever seeing Schwarzkopf carrying an assault rifle.
What, not fascist enough?
Fucking traitors.
Report just came out that pete is starting to get Botox. Let that sink in on the level we are at.
Blart just needed to get back to the mall before the holiday season starts.
Wasn't he the protagonist in that movie
They're classified as armored vehicles when fully equipped.
They gunna have fun come winter
Lmao they all look like Shane Gillis.
I see General Custard in that photo
Which standards? Were they not racist enough?
Does the US National Guard not have fitness requirements? Because I doubt those guys can run or do a pull up.
But Call of Duty told ME that the National Guards are forces to be reckoned with because they're fit and can take Burgertown from the Russians! Are you saying they lied?!
In all seriousness, however, a US general's concern was correct that America is too ill-prepared for a war, precisely because most Americans are ill-fitting.
National Lard
Semper Fudge
It's weird how for a fat guy, Taco doesn't like fatties.
Call of Gravy
No plates left behind
Meal can all can be
Special Fork Unit
Snack Ops Unit
I'm not pleased they're being deployed, but these guys aren't choosing to go to these places. They signed up for national defense (and not the kind that blows up schools in a desert on the other side of the world) and often helping with major disasters.
The Texas National Guard absolutely did not sign up for policing cities in Illinois or Oregon, and I'd bet vast majority are not pleased to be there.
Then fucking quit or refuse the orders.
That seems like an easy thing until you consider:
Federalized National guard troops are under Title 10 Authority.
Under Title 10 USC 890 Article 90: Willfully disobeying a lawful order in wartime is punishable with the death penalty.
With the executive branch claiming wartime powers and the DoJ willing to pursue any claim they want, they could certainly choose to pursue the maximum punishment to make an example out of someone.
The ranks of the JAG and military judges hasn't been purged yet, so I believe it is very inlikely that a court-marshal would reach this punishment, but these orders aren't something a Soldier can just walk away from without serious legal and financial repurcussions.
What they do in Chicago matters far more than their presence there. Every Soldier needs to recognize their ultimate purpose is to defend the freedom and liberty of their nation's citizens. They must have a line in the sand that they will refuse to cross and are willing to die for, but simply deploying to a city to stand outside a federal building is not that line.
They can't just quit. They're under a signed contract, which can be penalized with jail time if breached. Refusing orders is also not as simple as it sounds. Each soldier has a duty to refuse an unlawful order. However, if you disobey a direct order, and it is later determined to have been a lawful one, you will now be punished for failing to obey orders, might be a slap on the wrist, might be a dishonorable discharge, or could even be a court martial with jail time.
That's it exactly. I'm so sick of these dickheads jumping online and talking all the way out of their ass 'just refuse unlawful orders, bro'. Like their COC isn't gonna fuck them every kind of sideways for refusing orders via the UCMJ. Like, this isn't spending a weekend in jail and then it's over kinda shit, this will absolutely ruin your life. You could be spending years in the brig, reduced rank, reduced pay, possible dishonorable discharge while trying to fight the charges if you manage to win the case. On top of that, you want these soldiers/airmen to directly bring a legal fight to a federal administration that is likely to fuck them despite any legitimate grounds to refuse unlawful orders/conscientiously object? Get fucking real. Military personnel have the regular law AND the UCMJ to fucking deal with. These bros are fucking trapped.
Yeah, they are "just following orders".
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