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Has anyone else heard this-that US Military people (Navy, etc.) will have to REAFFIRM THEIR OATHS coming up this April?
Has anyone else heard this? weird. Why? Unless they will be swearing to something else, right? Because once they swear an oath to the country, that is it, for your whole career. I even had to swear my allegiance to the US, in my civilian career.
No, you do not swear the oath more than once. This is done when you first go in. If you were to repeat it, it would indicate that at some point, you no longer swear your allegiance and that is not true.
This, if true, must mean that the OLD constitution is going to be changed. SOMETHING BIG would be happening. I am trying to figure it out. If true, it is mighty weird. Maybe it has to do with all that "incorporated" business they have been talking about with the US Republic.
Maybe they are going to take it back to what is was when the founders created it? If so, that might be the best thing to happen because there are too many in gov now who are in it for themselves and not doing the will of the people who put them there!
It just dawned on me that perhaps it has to do with how the Biden admin, sifted through all the National Guard troops who were out there to PROTECT HIM... BUT he was afraid they were possibly "right wing" and so he had the ones who voted for Trump REMOVED???
Yes, thanks @anon-that came to me later, as well. Biden was afraid of the very men and women who risk their lives for this country. SMH at them.
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- 2 months agoFavorite Answer
Only the Navy has put out a directive that all sailors must reaffirm their oath of service. It's the same oath of service they took at enlistment/commissioning. It's not because the Constitution is changing and there is no separate oath or conspiracy to change the loyalty of the Navy. Also, servicemembers DO take the oath at reenlistment or appointment to next commissioned rank (not technically required, but permitted under title 10 USC and very common practice).
All that being said, this is probably the most heavy handed way that the Navy leadership could react to their concerns about extremism in their ranks.
Mandating that everyone reaffirms their oath in the context of this reaction puts every sailor under suspicion that they might be pushing extremist views and that they didn't mean their oath when they took it. This damages the trust between sailors and big Navy leadership, which has already been flagging in recent years.
Moreover, under title 10 USC, the oath of enlistment/office is required in association with an enlistment or appointment to commissioned service. Anything else is going to be a commanding officer's order, which may or may not be lawful. In the context of what is arguably a politically and idealogically influenced initiative to increase diversity of the force, mandating a reaffirmation of oath could be seen as compelled speech in support of political activity in the guise of military activity. At best this is government overreach, and at worst a violation of servicemembers' first amendment rights and breach of the public's trust in the military as a non-political force.
Source(s): NAVADMIN 044/21
