Could someone who has served or something please enlighten me?Just scratching my head wondering what about that process is keeping people from actually doing it. Beyond just saying “No,” is there grievance paperwork? A petition? Witness statements? Is it as simple as having the balls to tell your CO no to their face and being open to consequences?
It seems like at very least there’s a culture of “the people above me probably know better” and/or “don’t be the squeaky wheel” but it doesn’t seem to me that that should be enough for the level of inaction we seem to be seeing here. What gives?
The punishment will happen either way. If the bad guys win the punishment won’t stop. This whole thing of not obeying illegal orders relies on enough people to not obey that it can’t be ignored, and even then they can apparently 1984 it away anyway.
It’s incredibly childish.