Re: Military - Orders and Advancement.

From: Stuf4 (tdadamemd-spamblock-_at_excite.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: 23 Jun 2004 21:27:12 -0700

>From Derek Lyons:
> >The only time you can be "punished for blindly
> >following orders" is if the order in question was unlawful.
> >Otherwise, you will be breaking rocks for 20 years if you DON'T follow
> >orders.
>
> Absolutely incorrect.

?!

I will be shocked if anything official can be found to support this
two word persuasive effort.

<snip>
> >I would guess it was because of your attitude regarding orders...
>
> Nope. It was because of the unique circumstances of where and when I
> was in. If you have the balls drop over the sci.military.naval and
> raise both the issues of obeying orders and the issue of advancement
> in the SWS rates in the 1980's.

(There are plenty of people in this forum who know how to read
military regulations and the UCMJ.)

~ CT

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