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Insubordination is the act of willfully disobeying a lawful order of one's superior. It is generally a punishable offense in hierarchical organizations such as the armed forces , which depend on people lower in the chain of command obeying orders.
Miller fought with the Union army for another year before being mustered out of service on August 24, 1864. Despite disobeying a direct order he was never court-martialed for his decision to break rank. [3] Indeed, his decision to charge the Confederate advance earned him the Medal of Honor, which was awarded in July 1897.
A military order is defined in § 2 (2) of the German military penal law (German: Wehrstrafgesetz, WStG) as an: instruction for a defined behavior (Anweisung zu einem bestimmten Verhalten) given by a military superior to his subordinate; in written, oral or other form (for example, signals or signs) generally, or in a single case
Dissent by military officers falls into two main categories: violent and non-violent. In essence, when a military officer, military leader chooses to oppose the orders given to him by his superior officers or national leader, he/she must decide whether his counter-action will be violent or non-violent in nature and in aim.
In separate courts martial trials on October 26, 27 and 28, 1970, the six were all found guilty. Five were convicted of Article 90 violations for willfully and purposely disobeying the lawful command of a superior commissioned officer. The sixth man, Jeffrey Griffith, was convicted of an Article 92 violation for disobeying a direct order.
Despite being threatened to be reported for disobeying his officer’s direct orders to stay sheltered in the ditch, Kohler kept running. He grabbed a 50-caliber machine gun and ammunition and ...
In general, military personnel give orders only to those directly below them in the chain of command and receive orders only from those directly above them. A service member who has difficulty executing a duty or order and appeals for relief directly to an officer above his immediate commander in the chain of command is likely to be disciplined ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...