Under their military rules, they have an obligation to disregard illegal orders. This war was not declared by congress. It is illegal and unconstitutional. They are chosing to do this and are thus complicit.
There are many aspects here, but I'll only comment on the one I brought up originally: they are in the military because they had few other options in life. And this is true in this very situation as well. If they choose to disobey orders, they risk court martials, loss of pension, imprisonment, or worse... even if they are right because, well, you've seen what else is happening in the country.
To be clear, these people were not on the front lines in an invasion. Our contributions are currently (AFAWK) precision strikes. These dead service members would be victims of region-wide retaliatory missile strikes and may genuinely not have even known we had attacked Iran before a missile came out of nowhere and killed them in their (e.g.) cushy Dubai job.
Heck, if they were told the day of, what are they going to do? They're stuck in the Middle East on a deployment and will need to rely on a military vehicle to take them across the pond.
You should at least inform yourself about what's happening before making comments like this.
keeda|5 hours ago
And they know that this was not done on a whim: https://www.jurist.org/features/2025/02/26/explainer-jag-fir...
Tadpole9181|6 hours ago
Heck, if they were told the day of, what are they going to do? They're stuck in the Middle East on a deployment and will need to rely on a military vehicle to take them across the pond.
You should at least inform yourself about what's happening before making comments like this.