(02-08-2020, 02:17 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(02-07-2020, 11:53 PM)mikesez Wrote: Feel is not quite the right word.  Think was the right word.
The point is, it doesn't matter if it's actually illegal, if you think it's illegal, don't do it, and report it.  Tell the proper channels. You'll either get reassigned with an explanation that you were wrong, or your superior will get disciplined if you were right.  The Vindman case is somewhere in between.  Even though he was right, because the impeachment failed, reassigning him is the appropriate remedy.

No, sir. 

It isn’t about what you feel or think. You must know it’s illegal to be insubordinate or to report the activity of your superior. Otherwise, the entire system is caught up in a never ending cycle of petty undermining behavior. 

You can’t assign a self righteous motive to excuse his behavior. He wasn’t right, by the way. He did nothing more than offer his opinion.

People disagree about what the law says all the time.
This is all handled by legal staff who are smarter than you or me. Soldiers are adults. The consequences of obeying orders could be death. And there are real consequences for disobeying orders as well, even though there is sometimes a duty to disobey.
A soldier with a sincere and reasonable disagreement is unlikely to face punishment beyond reassignment if the higher level staff disagree with how he reads or understands the law. but a soldier just seems to me making trouble and doesn't seem to be sincere or reasonable about why they think the thing is illegal, could be discharged, perhaps even dishonorably discharged.
If a majority of the House of Representatives and constitutional scholars agree with Vindman, he belongs in the first category, not the second.

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