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To: Eye of Unk
From your link: FACT: If only ONE of the Joint Chiefs of Staff balks we lose an entire arm of our military ! He can not nor will not give the order to mobilize the forces if he has a reason to question the validity of that order. In fact he himself is duty bound to not obey this if not given by a "legal" President or at a minimum is conflicted as to the right thing to do !! The Oath states he will obey the lawful orders of those above him not ANY order. Chief Justice Roberts has as much as told them by distributing this case we may have a constitutional problem with Obama. So at this very moment our Military leaders are likely conflicted. Not a good thing.

First: The officers oath, which is the same oath taken by the Vice President and members of Congress, says nothing about obeying orders.

Second, command no longer goes through the individual service chiefs. It goes directly from the civilian National Command Authority to the commanders of the Geographic Combatant Commands or the Unified Commands

IOW, this guy is either a fake, or some sort of non line officer, such as a Doctor, Nurse, or JAG (who would probably know).

82 posted on 01/10/2009 1:58:26 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato; Eye of Unk
El Gato you are right. The letter writer does not know or understand the chain of command.

Actally the chain of command goes from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands and thus bypasses the Joint Chiefs of Staff completely.

The Joint Chiefs are advisors to the President and nothing more.

113 posted on 01/11/2009 4:52:05 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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