True, but the officers giving them their orders will have taken the other version, the one that hasn't been changed since 1868.
I, A.B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
The Enlisted Oath was changed in 1950 to add the UCMJ referance (UCMJ only existed after the creation of the Defense Department) and again in 1962 to make it more nearly conform to the officers oath, adding the oath to support and defend the Constitution.
I doubt that very many officers are going to be willing to give up their careers in defense of the Constitution. They are more political now than our politicians.
I seem to remember the word “lawful” being in that oath. As in obeying lawful orders.
Good info Gato. Once we open the Pandora’s Box of having individuals in the military reacting to Politics with their guns, it will splinter...Mexicans over there, Cubans over here, Whites there, Blacks here....ClusterFoxtrot with bullets.