[USCG SimTech]

I don't believe that you could find a U.S. soldier who would follow a presidential order to descend on a state to round up or shoot down fellow Americans because they refuse to follow a congressional order to buy health insurance.

Well I believe it.

If a member of the armed forces is issued an illegal order it is that service members duty to report the illegal order and TAKE ACTION to resolve the situation. This includes arresting that next upper chain of command for mutiny.

[Lady Lucky]

Yes, I'm aware of that. Nevertheless, many will not choose to view a given order as illegal, but instead decide to agree with the authority that commands (and that controls their careers, their fortunes, their very lives).

In any case the soldiers won't be troubled with the job of suppressing resistance to obamacare. The paramilitary police will SWAT down all opponents.

Imagine if they'd been around during Prohibition.

[Kaslin]

correct

[EBH]

If a member of the armed forces is issued an illegal order it is that service members duty to report the illegal order and TAKE ACTION to resolve the situation

Here is the twist on that...

If the law stands, the order is not illegal. The only way the order is illegal is if the courts rule 0bamacare is unConstitutional and 0bama/IRS/government implement it anyway. Then and only then is it illegal. Members of the armed services are not protected from immoral laws, just illegal ones.

[trebb]

If a member of the armed forces is issued an illegal order it is that service members duty to report the illegal order and TAKE ACTION to resolve the situation. This includes arresting that next upper chain of command for mutiny.

True, but if that service member does not carry out that order, he is still open to UCMJ action. The climate says to do the "right" thing by doing the "wrong" thing, then try to have the one giving unlawful orders taken to task. Military folks are in a catch-22 in this area.