"Milley: Well, my duty and responsibility is to the Constitution, that's where my loyalty is. That's what I take an oath to. That's what every one of us in uniform does. We don't take an oath to an individual, we don't take an oath to anything other than the Constitution of the United States. So our loyalty and our, you know — we are duty bound, we are oath bound — to protect and defend the Constitution. And part of that, by the way, is to follow the lawful legal orders of whomever is the elected representative, whether you like the orders or not. If they're legal and lawful, it's our obligation to follow them. And that's an important thing, we the military are obligated by law to follow lawful orders."
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Mark Milley as interviewed by Mary Louise Kelly, Erika Ryan Courtney Dorning; "'The military has no role' in politics, says retiring chair of the Joint Chiefs”, All Things Considered, NPR, (October 2, 2023)
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