Circumstances?
Was it a difficult decision?
2006-11-15 14:42:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Disobey an order because its unlawful, yeah I did that twice both in a theatre of combat. One was to refuse medical attention to an enemy combatant, the guy had been shot in the face and had his lower jaw in his hand. We were told to just let the guy go and bleed out basically, we called a corpsman over though to give the guy something for his pain, he later died and me and another guy got yelled at for like 5 minutes and that was about it. The only other time was some BS that involved a land mine a guy brought to us, I still to this day dont know if the SSgt was joking or not when he told us to have the guy jump on it to see if it was live.
2006-11-15 15:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by irishfan46241 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really.. I was able to speak to the officer and have him see the error of his command. He was under some pressure and basically wanted us to take down some equipment during the middle of a lightening storm. We were on a hill and lightening was striking all around us.
If he had not changed his mind; I would have disobeyed his order and recommended the same of my troops. Better to have equipment damaged a little than loosing a person. I believe it would have been considered an unlawful order.
2006-11-16 00:14:36 · answer #2 · answered by Shiva07 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Always obey the order. It is not your decision. If you have a problem with an order, file a report and go from there. You have done your duty and if the order is deemed unlawful, the person that gave it will take the fall. Your butt is covered.
2006-11-16 17:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by blindogben 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was in the reserves at the time in a convoy. My driver was an E6 and I was an E3. We started off driving and about 30 minutes into the drive the E6 pulled out a bottle of whiskey and just started sipping. I was absolutly freaked. For the first 5 minutes I didn't say a word, but kept thinking in my head "wow we could get into some serious trouble here" Finally, I realized that since I am witnessing this that I could be in held liable if somthing happened as well. I told him I didn't think it was a good idea that he had that **** out when he was driving and asked him if he wanted me to drive. He said he wasn't gonna stop the convoy to switch drivers. Luckily thank god the truck in front of us got a flat and we had to stop to repair it. First thing I did was walk up to him and said give me the ****** keys right now. He ordered me to get back in the vehicle. I refused and stood right in front of the driver door.
Finally one of the other E-4's in my platoon came over by the truck to see what the frickin hold up was. He saw the E-6 was drinking (I guess the E-6 had done the same thing last year to the E-4 that he was doing to me). Anyway the E-4 (who was quite a bit older than me) told the E-6 to shut his ****** mouth our he was gonna drop him and leave him in the ditch. I drove for the rest of the convoy.
2006-11-15 23:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by travis R 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In 25 years of service the only 'unlawful' order I was given was under circumstances where t was an emergency situation and we got so involved in what we were doing we failed to stop and think until somebody came up to us and asked us: "What the f*** are you doing?"
Rather embarrassing for all of us. Fortunately, no harm was caused.
2006-11-16 10:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I dsobeyed a direct order. It was a lawful order but it wasn't from a military leader. It was from a civilian leader in our government while I was assigned to the Presidential Support section at Andrews AFB, MD. The "individual" (#2) ordered me to do something that was "wrong" and I said "NO". I was reprimanded on the spot and #2 wanted me kicked out of the USAF. My commander agreed with me...that was 5 years ago...I'm still in the USAF and have 21 years 2 months in the military. The rest of the story is in fact classified. Life is good!
2006-11-16 00:54:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not in the military but I think the first thing to do, is make sure what you're disobeying is actually unlawful, and not just immoral by your own standards...meaning that if you sign up for the Armed forces, are sent into battle and decide you don't like the reason you're there...you can't just decide to go AWOL.
2006-11-15 22:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in Basic Training I was ordered to hit another soldier with the butt of my rifle and I refused. Every morning we would run 2 miles with our rifle and web gear on and he fell near me when I had rear road guard. I spent the rest of my time in Basic at Fort Polk in the barracks cleaning the latrines. From then on the Army and I didn't get along very well. I spent 3 years in and stayed in trouble most of the time, although I never lost a stripe or was I ever held back in rank, manly because of my MOS.
2006-11-15 22:57:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never came across any orders I deemed to be unlawful. Five year Navy vet. Five years in the Reserves too.
2006-11-15 22:45:46 · answer #9 · answered by Smith Jerrod 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
NO, I never got an order that was anywhere close to unlawful.
I doubt many have ever received unlawful orders.
Distasteful maybe...LOL
2006-11-15 22:51:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋