Is the US ripe for a coup?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So many people who don't know how the US military works...

There is how the military is said to work and goes through the motion of working that way,

and then there is how the military is likely to actually behave when those with operational control is really confronted with the choice between carrying out easy and seemingly routine and excusable behavior that even under the circumstances hold no great threat of personal social and career consequences, and behavior that would mostly benefit others outside one’s own social class but which require great moral courage because they carry threat of severe personal social and career consequences.

When faced with such choices, I believe all militaries will prove largely corrupt.  There might be a few exceptions on an individual level, but it becomes a crapshoot whether the right individual is in the right position, or there are enough of them coordinating sufficiently effectively to make any difference.  For most of their peers would be found corrupt when really challenged.

It you count on corruption and moral cowardess when nobility and moral courage is called for, you might very occasionally be pleasantly surprised.   But if you count on nobility and moral courage when corruption and moral cowardess is possible and seemingly without much risk, you will usually be severely disappointed.

Your guessing is ungrounded in fact.