My first night in bootcamp, in 1972, all the recruits were gathered in some big room while some 1st class PO read an exciting novelette about what we would or wouldn't do, could or couldn't, what orders we were to obey, etc., when some long-haired guy asked the PO if he could ask a question. Like the kindness the first night afforded, the PO said yes. The guy then questioned whether we could be made to do something because we were protected by the Constitution. The PO, in one of those statements of wisdom that last a lifetime, said: 'Son, you are in the United States Military now. You are no longer protected by the Constitution; you are protected by The Uniform Code of Military Justice - - - and there is no justice." He didn't say he had to get a ruling from a federal judge before he answered. But that was before federal judges started destroying the Constitution to change from a Constitutional Republic to a judiciarchy.
