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Good point... I sometimes get excited and forgot that we could be talking about another branch. I suppose the other branches have similar rules but who knows....
That is actually the answer I was looking for. I could care less if someone wants to destroy their career exercising his/her poor judgement. It just seems a real departure from the old days
That is actually the answer I was looking for. I could care less if someone wants to destroy their career exercising his/her poor judgement. It just seems a real departure from the old days
Yes indeed! As I recall in 1968, I wasn't even given time off to go and vote.
That is actually the answer I was looking for. I could care less if someone wants to destroy their career exercising his/her poor judgement. It just seems a real departure from the old days
I agree with you, but how is it ruining their careers?
If I was to post a political vulgar bumper sticker, and I was relieved or given a bad NCOER....if that were to happen, It would be an instant IG complaint....
Remember, you MUST respect the rank.....not the person....
I'm a veteran and a military spouse. Could it have been a spouse's car? And even if it isn't dictating what military personnel have on their car is very close to undermining free speech. It's one thing if the member is writing the NY Times and stating as Major John Smith representing the US Army, he believes that the President sucks, but this person is driving a car, with no rank designation or name on the car. And furthermore, if you are going to tell people that they can't have Obama sucks on their car, you need to also tell people that they can't any thing in support of Obama on their car, or the yellow ribbons, or anything else that could possibly be construed in any manner to be derogatory towards any groups or person.
You can go to a rally or protest, but you can NOT represent yourself as a military member, or be in uniform. I've gone to protests before while active duty, it's my God given right as an American citizen, but I have never gone to a rally/protest in uniform, nor did I say what I did for a living. Military members are authorized to have lives outside of the military, to include beliefs, they are just not authorized to make those beliefs "official military beliefs."
That's what we were always told as well. One thing that really surprised me during the flash mob outside the White House when Bin Laden was killed was that Lt. Dan gave an interview in uniform. We were always told that when you are in uniform, DO NOT talk to the press unless it has been authorized no matter what the subject was.
I don't know the constitutionality of what we were ordered, but when I was in, we were advised that we could never have a political bumper sticker or advertise our politics in any way. That might not have been legally binding, but we did as we were told. We were encouraged to vote, but kept our opinions, especially about those in our chain-of-command, private.
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