So this angle just popped in my head and its burning a big question mark in my brain. Let's take it back to election night. I'm lower enlisted and I know all my buddies and my immediate commanding officer voted Trump. The commanding officer is one of the more open officers that you can talk to and you bring it up to him. "The very rights I'm serving to protect were just stolen from me and my countrymen." What's the response? Is everything very hush hush right now and dont bring up the elephant in the room? Is this why we are seeing all this "oath" taking and vetting in our military right now? This is honestly unprecedented so I find it hard to believe people in the military haven't sent a few complaints up the chain of command about election stealing. I'm dying to know what the chatter among all the different ranks are.
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Not a lot of current military members on this site, at least that's my observation. As a former Navy officer I can say that politics were normally not discussed as a general rule. Although these are unusual times.
The general consensus of this site, as I understand it, is that the requirement to take another oath of office is related to this idea that Trump just moved the US out from under deep state Corporate control, which the US was put under sometime between 1871 and 1913, depending on who is telling the story.
Also, that D.C. is now defunct, having never been an actual part of the USA. It was part of a trilateral deep state control organization with headquarters in the Vatican, City of London and DC. Also, that eventually it will be deserted of US gov't functions as Trump & Co. re-invent the US gov't and likely locate it somewhere more appropriate, given the past Treasonous actions taken in that city. This is all just me giving a recap of my understanding after having read multiple articles and comments about current and past events.
It was humiliating to serve during carter. We didn't talk about it, everyone knew. There were cheers tho when he lost to Reagan.
I was enlisted during the transition from Carter to Reagan. We were not allowed to wear our uniforms when going home on leave (or strongly suggested) during carter. Once Reagan was installed, we were encouraged to wear our uniforms home with pride
I served during Clinton and Bush. Clinton was an embarrassment and we were treated like shit.
I would love to hear more from those in our military. Most are a tight group and know how to keep their brothers in arms safe with secrecy, but there has to be some sort of consensus of their opinion.
My older brother retired as a full commander from the navy. I asked him about the navy forcing all to retake the oath. This was his reply. "I don't see why unless they are either paranoid or trying to get someone to swear allegiance to their cause instead of the Constitution.
The political situation in this country is very toxic & there are ongoing efforts to pit one against another instead of trying to unite the country.
The clouds on the horizon are quite dark & difficult times lie just ahead."
"I'm dying to know what the chatter among all the different ranks are."
I'm dying to have another sandwich.
I thought some one left you a shitload of sandwiches last night?........
What sandwiches?
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What good does it do to make people who already take their oath seriously take it again? It’s purely symbolic. The whole stand down to root out extremism is coming up empty so the DS has to put on some kind of show. I’m sure I’m the privacy of their own thoughts most troops are shaking their heads.
I work in a comms (sort-of) unit, USAF. Everyone in my unit is a typical fake news-sucking sleeper, except for just a few holdouts who, despite their higher ranks, don't seem pricy to any kind of plan. Nothing's been said about retaking the Oath of Enlistment, though.