[BuckeyeTexan]

The problem with that logic is that the Army issued a "counseling form" warning Lakin his deployment orders were valid before they charged him.

This counseling is to inform you that your deployment orders are presumed to be valid and lawful orders issued by competent military authority ...

[JoSixChip]

Evidently he presumed they were not valid because the CIC has demonstrated that he is most likely not eligible to be CIC. You have to admit that any man that would risk his life and carer to stand for what he believes is a man of honor. To bad we don’t have more of them in government.

[El Gato]

This counseling is to inform you that your deployment orders are presumed to be valid and lawful orders issued by competent military authority ...

It's a presumption that can be rebutted, and that's what the defense would try to do.