An Officer's Oath

By Reese, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H.

Book Id: WPLBN0000674483
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.49 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	An Officer's Oath
Author:	Reese, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Armed Forces, Military law
Collections:	Military Law Review
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Publisher:	Government Publication


Citation APA MLA Chicago Thomas H. Rees, L. C. (n.d.). An Officer's Oath. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

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Military Law Review

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Introduction: You have held personal safety and comfort above duty, honor, and country, and, in so doing, have deliberately violated your oath as an officer of the United States Army. These words of reprimand were imposed upon an Army lieutenant colonel by Lieutenant General Robert N. Young, then Commanding General, Sixth US Army, on 21 February 1956. Considerable concern arose in the minds of military officers of the United States who read General Young?s words. Questions of unsure loyalty, divided loyalty, and the meaning of an officer?s oath were voiced by some commissioned officers. Others stated: ?In many years of active service in the Armed Forces of the United States I have never been reminded, in training, of an officer?s oath, nor heard a discussion of its meaning.?