jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“It is generally not a good idea, career-wise, to refuse illegal orders. It’s a better idea to find a way around them... But sometimes you don’t have a choice… a superior officer told me to stop signing up members of my platoon who had families for food stamps. It was legal for soldiers to receive food stamps. They qualified because of their very low pay, which put many of them below the federal poverty line. I refused that order”
https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/the-bill-of-rights-for-soldiers