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Originally Posted by Ducimus
scandium, as a soldier, sailor, Airmen or Marine, your's is not to reason why.
In otherwords, why your being sent to Iraq, Korea, Bosnia, Guadamala, Honduras, or wherever, isn't of your concern. You simply have no say in it. You signed a contract, you took an oath, and it's your job to go where they tell you to go, when they tell you to go there. You don't have to like it, you don't even have to agree with it, but it's your job and sworn duty go when and where sent. Why we're "there" to begin with, is totally irrelvant as a boot on the ground. Thats a theater of reasoning that belongs to the politicians.
What you DO while THERE, is what falls under Lawful and Unlawful orders. You don't have to be a genious to figure out what an unlawful order is. Rape, murder, killing of unarmed noncombatants, cruel and unusual punishment/treatment, viloations of the geneva convention, etc etc are unlawful orders. And the age old escuse of "i was just following orders" will never hold up in any courts martial.
Overall your not paid to agree or disagree with the countries administration or not. You don't have to like it at all, you can hate the adminstration and its executive decisions with every fiber in your being. But you Do have to lawfullly execute your duties to the best of your ablity.
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