'It's ILLEGAL': Ret. General says military doesn't take up arms against civilians

The word I kept hearing from them was embarrassment. Because if you look at that picture, and you listen or have viewed what happened yesterday in Quantico, you saw a myriad numbers of Silver Star awards. You saw a myriad Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars, combat infantry badges, and they were being lectured on how to do push-ups and lose weight and shave. And it was truly mortifying, but the larger question is going forward, what happens to

the military with this internal dissension that you can seemingly feel when you when you witness an event like yesterday.

When you look at those faces, it's what I predicted when I was on the show the other day and that you're going to get poker faces and a stoicism that was reflective of professionalism. But truthfully, those those individuals will leave that room or left that room yesterday and they'll start discussing and analyzing how they can implement some of the lawful orders that they got. You know, okay, great. We can buck up the standards.

We can take a look at the kinds of things to get some soldiers, not all, certainly not even the majority, back in better shape, take a look at what our ranks look like. But there were also soldiers and well, all ranks of services in that audience that said, wait a minute, when they were writing down the same kind of checklist that I was writing down saying,

wait a minute, we can't do that, or we shouldn't do that, or this is a true violation of what we are as professionals or hey I've got women in my ranks who are performing admirably why should I kind of lump them all together like the secretary did or I'm certainly now going to debate with myself what am I going to say if I'm asked to go on the street and conduct illegal actions. And I guarantee you that the people in that audience will not execute illegal orders.

We've been saying that for a long time. This was a disciplinary approach in public with cameras so the whole nation could see. And it was an attempt at separating And it was an attempt at separating the military institution from the people that they defend.