The Code

When I joined the army, I had to swear to obey the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Donald Trump, of course, would not understand the Code (or much else), because his father paid a doctor to help him dodge military service during Vietnam.  

The Code states that soldiers must not obey orders that are "contrary to the laws of the United States." 

I was not an attorney in those days (or later), and those who wrote the Code did not expect me to debate fine points of the law. The Code was telling me to disobey if an officer ordered me to shoot a five-year-old girl asleep on a couch. 

 

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