Thank you for your (lack of) support and faith in our service members. You obviously believe that the majority of them are mindless, ignorant, “conditioned” (brainwashed) and robotic; that they swear allegiance to the president and their senior leadership. They swear allegiance to the Constitution and to follow the LAWFUL orders of those appointed above them.
They will follow all initial orders as no order will be a direct order to murder. Few have the guts to disobey senior officers and want to keep their job as any of us. Many are minorities or AA that would follow Zero to Hell. Very, very few would question initial orders, and not enough would to matter. The orders will be carried out. Those under about 26 years old aren’t mature enough to know what a lawful order is. They’ll do as they are told.
I have complete faith and support of our servicemembers, but having served as an Executive Officer and Squadron Commander I can tell you that I, or no one, wants to stand in front of an 18 year old kid (YES kid!) with a loaded weapon in a stressful situation, and expect that accidents won’t happen. If you think every order given if LAWFUL, or that they would have time to do anything but react, you are very naive.