THE Gun Thread

[Thumpalumpacus]

By your rules - our military should be able to order our soldiers to kamakazi into the enemy....

Or maybe they shouldn' t have picked the military as a career???

Actually, the only orders we're allowed legally to refuse -- and it's a tricky path you've chosen, little monk -- is if you think the orders you're given are illegal, per Geneva convention or UCMJ.

Outside of that, yes, we could be and were given orders to risk our lives, and the refusal to obey them could be and most often is addressed through military courts for big problems (your refusal cost another unit-member their life or health) or Article 15 proceedings.

And yes, anyone who's asked me whether the military is a good option for them, my first question is "Are you ready to die for your country at any time? Because you can be asked to do so." So yeah, I enlisted knowing full well it could result in my death and that I had no legal recourse to object to those orders.

Police personnel aren't military.