And this is one of the many, many good reasons why one does not comply with illegal orders, damn it!

Oh look, exactly what Mark Kelly was talking about. Shit rolls down hill guys. Remember that when someone orders you to murder people.

Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.

RTFM

As they should. But the fact that he chose to follow an obviously illegal order, doesn't absolve the ones who gave that order. This should in no way, take the heat off Hegseth...or Trump himself.

Follow illegal orders, get thrown under the bus.

Dont follow illegal orders, get thrown under the bus.

So we went from denial, to it happened but it wasn't us...

I can’t believe it was Joe Biden that flew the plane.

Hey military— see what happens when you obey illegal orders?

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If he ordered it, or complied with the order from above, lock him up. If not, this accusation is yet another confession.

It was LEGAL but ALSO Pete Hegseth DIDNT know about it AND we Fired someone Over it!

As was said elsewhere, the transmitted command will have been recorded. The hard undeniable truth can be provided. Congress just needs to subpoena it, or a soldier with a conscience needs to whistleblow and leak it. Otherwise, we trust the liars' word and they get away with yet more of what are unquestionably, objectively, war crimes.

We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.

Pete Hegseth [Source]

Ok... So common sense would read that as: ' it wasn't legal, it's a prime example of a war crime, and Pete may not have explicitly approved of that action, but probably gave a vague order like 'no survivors' , which the admiral took literally, and so it's entirely the admirals fault for not disobeying an unlawful order. '

All I want for Christmas is a military coup, cold hard justice for the traitors enabling Trump, and emergency elections, monitored by the military, and un observers

Hmm, I wonder why Admiral Holsey decided to retire when he did. 🤔

First of all, blowing up a boat like is illegal. Even if it was legal you'll have to prove that the boat contained drugs, but you just blowed your evidences! The guys that survived the attack then would have no charges over them and would be set free. Probably these guys were innocent and the boat was not a drug boat, thus they killed them as a cover up

Can it be a war crime if you’re not actually at war? Seems like it’s just murder.

As a sailor, I find the whole shoddy affair most disgusting.

Yes in war (and this was by no means a war) we may seek to kill one another as enemies, but every sailor knows, it is the sea who is the ultimate enemy.

A human adrift at sea is a pitiful thing. To save them is to save ourselves.

Dear America,

You are disposable to them.

I guess we can add "war criminal" or straight up "murderer" to Trump's list of accomplishments. It's his administration.

Do you want the military to coup d'etat your ass? Because throwing your admiral under a bus boat will make many military leaders think...

Eh, what am I saying? Please keep throwing them, we all want a coup at this point

This is the whole point of "chain of command". The suckers are at the bottom. This admiral should be grateful that he's not dead in the ditch somewhere like his victims abroad and in the lower ranks.

This demonstrates another reason why you shouldn't obey clearly illegal orders. If you kill someone on the illegal order of a superior and then they deny having given the order, guess who's gonna hang for it?

Kill. Them. All.

And I don't mean boat.