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Legal. Moral. Ethical. Those three principles are the bedrock of chain of command orders in US military. Now, just because you feel one of the above is out of sorts doesn't make you right, however, if you do feel that strongly about it, you have a duty to refuse/disobey.

NOPE. Not at all. We saw this issue coming 10 years ago.

Size and strength (s&s) is critically important. However, since the dawn of time, it must be matched with a society's political will (pw; e.g. size and strength). Remember, warfare is just politics by other means. WWI - military s&s + misapplication of pw = debatable outcome WWII - military...

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I was the 50000 ft level. I reminded my felow war fighters of legal, moral, and ethical daily. Granted WE defined moral and ethical so there is that....

You mean legal*, moral*, and ethical* orders. Those three tenets are the bedrock of our structure. *As defined

Correct. Over the 'fəking sniffles. Remember when I got banned for saying that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

100% they are. I didn't mean to diminish their service. Just very different categorically than active duty. Regardless, this misguided policy over the 'fəking sniffles is asnine.

Guard and Reserve do not equal Active Duty. Huge difference. Loss nonetheless though.

It's already starting to have a negative recruiting impact...

I'm shocked.

It isn't a health decision per se, but combat medical readiness.

Um...um.... Anthrax rollout was a barrel of monkeys. Mandatory...challenged...not mandatory...then back to mandatory only when FDA approval released. It set DoD standard for newly developed vax. Flu vax has been mandatory since forever. I can't imagine a single scenario where an active...

Actually, you couldn't be more wrong about this.

They are also doing it to pay for modernization. Harvest MILPERS savings for other parts of the budget.