Once you are a member of the US military, you fall under the UCMJ, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and for all practical purposes you cease to have things like "opinions" and free speech. You become a unit in a large, disciplined military machine whose main purpose is to conduct "diplomacy by other means." In other words, you become a part of a lethal instrument that the President (often with the blessings of Congress, but not always...that's a conversation for another time) can use to kill people and break things when necessary in the pursuit of national security.
For the past few year or so, starting with Clinton and certainly under Obama and Biden, the military was allowed to drift into areas that it should not have... transgender experimentation, LGBTQ side issues, and all manner of non-military stupid things. All of it distracted from its core mission of lethality. The aforementioned idiots turned the military into a social engineering laboratory and as a result, discipline and morale suffered. Recruitment efforts also suffered because of it.
But a new President and a new Secretary of Defense have ridden into town and they are going to reshape the military into what it once was. I'm reminded of the scene in the movie "Patton," when Gen. Patton arrives in Tunisia to take over the beleaguered remnant of the surviving American armored division there. What he found was a lackluster, undisciplined group of men who had lost their way. What followed was a classic case of taking names and kicking ass.
Yeah disparaging your chain of command is on the same level as getting face tattoos - its a choice she made of her own free will but not one that is conducive to keeping her job.
Once you are a member of the US military, you fall under the UCMJ, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and for all practical purposes you cease to have things like "opinions" and free speech. You become a unit in a large, disciplined military machine whose main purpose is to conduct "diplomacy by other means." In other words, you become a part of a lethal instrument that the President (often with the blessings of Congress, but not always...that's a conversation for another time) can use to kill people and break things when necessary in the pursuit of national security.
For the past few year or so, starting with Clinton and certainly under Obama and Biden, the military was allowed to drift into areas that it should not have... transgender experimentation, LGBTQ side issues, and all manner of non-military stupid things. All of it distracted from its core mission of lethality. The aforementioned idiots turned the military into a social engineering laboratory and as a result, discipline and morale suffered. Recruitment efforts also suffered because of it.
But a new President and a new Secretary of Defense have ridden into town and they are going to reshape the military into what it once was. I'm reminded of the scene in the movie "Patton," when Gen. Patton arrives in Tunisia to take over the beleaguered remnant of the surviving American armored division there. What he found was a lackluster, undisciplined group of men who had lost their way. What followed was a classic case of taking names and kicking ass.
Yeah disparaging your chain of command is on the same level as getting face tattoos - its a choice she made of her own free will but not one that is conducive to keeping her job.