Exactly. When Generals and Admirals are rubbing shoulders with politicians while openly making inflammatory political statements, sometimes against the acting Commander in Chief, it is excused and brushed off. But when Johnny E3 of the US Army says the higher ups fucked up not giving him and his colleges on the ground intel and supplies it's dangerous and out of line.
Yeah I know, but just those talks aren't gonna do anything sadly. It is beginning to sound like the USA desperately needs to import some of the Japanese
Gekokujō when it comes to enforcing the rules that are supposed to be universal. Maybe not quite as radically as the Japanese have historically done it, but maybe something like a wide range protest.
Johnny E3 can say it and get away with it.
A LTC in a commanding position on the other hand has UCMJ rules about it.
NCOs have more leeway in that regard.
A junior enlisted would just get non judicial punishment, so extra duty or something if the officer is in his chain.
Because eventually those in charge won't be in charge anymore, and enforcing rules is hard to do out in the open on people high up.
Have you considered maybe I know enough about the military, and have a different context, to just reach different conclusions than you?
Because I know the enlisted won't be court martialed for it.
But how many of those who speak out like that about senior leadership and POTUS, in a way that gets media attention like Scheller did, do not suffer for it when it comes time for promotions? Or get NJPs for petty shit afterwards in retaliation?
You keep trying to go the dodge route of trying to ignore the inherent contradictions in how the USMJ is applied to things like this, and keep operating of an ideal state situation/mentality instead of what we have as the situation currently.
A Batt Commander in the Marines is not someone who can be brushed off for this in the current political climate, because he demanded something that is truly anathema to DC; accountability to the people. Both the civies the politicans in DC serve and military those politicans command want accountability when there is a fuck up at the top levels on the scale of A-stan, and both deserve it.
Enlisted won't get punished if they spoke out like him because the NCO in charge of the enlisted could say I won't do that.
Officers have a lot diffrent rules, and if the enlisted soldier is never brought to an article 15 or 32, it won't effect his promotion to anything above SSG.
Look at Angry Cops, he is basically a permanent SSG, and has helped call out senior leaders, both enlisted and officers, and his command backed him over the others.
Enlisted are allowed diffrent rules to follow.
Angry Cops, Nicky MTGV, etc etc.
Plenty of popular military enlisted are talking about it. Some VERY well known, like Angry Cops.
The thing is, the likely hood for a junior enlisted or a low level NCO (up to SSG) to be punished in any way is highly unlikely.
That is what you seem to fail to understand. The Marine LTC knew this is what would happen. He knew he was breaking UCMJ doing it.
In order for those up high, it takes time and effort that isn't going to be public.