Reply #11: A soldier can challenge an order that is clearly illegal.

[msanthrope]

Sure.

But here, Lakin is tasked with explaining why he can't follow the order of a Congressional Medal of Honor winner to merely deploy.

The order he is charged with defying did not issue from President Obama.

It issued from Col. Gordon Roberts, who won the CMH at 19, in Vietnam. He refused an order to report to Fort Campbell, KY and thence to follow deployment to Afghanistan.....

And that's what he's gonna have to answer for, and he's not gonna be able to make some crazy ass claim that the Army is obligated to prove to him that every official from Roberts on up to Obama is the legal holder of office they currently occupy.

Now, the hearing officer is allowing Lakin to call Ambassador Alan Keyes. That should be fun.