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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
can I ask a question? just to clarify in my mind what I may be under a misconception about.
Can't you be court marshalled (sp?) for going against a superiors orders if you are in the military?
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Actually, if it is an illegal order you are supposed to refuse or at the very least you do not have to follow it.
Now proving you were given an illegal order is nearly impossible.
Say for instance, if you know that torture is illegal, yet your superiors tell you to degrade and basically mind fuck a prisoner (among other things) and a picture is leaked out...... have fun trying to tell people it was an order.
Yet, had you not done as told how do you prove that you were told to do that, and since you didn't you were put on forward patrol in a vehicle whose armor hadn't been updated?