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SomewhereInTheMiddle

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7. I wonder if this has anything to do with ...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 03:30 AM

Yesterday

... that whole "duty to refuse to follow illegal orders" thing that is getting so much press right now.

My understanding is that cadets are taught that particular duty at the academies. I know it was taught at the Army War College to senior and soon to be senior officers from all the services.

Maybe this Captain refused to remove that part of the curriculum. That is giving him the benefit of the doubt. But it would not surprise me in the current atmosphere.

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