R.I.P. Scout26
Letting him off the hook would set a precedent that would be absolutely suicidal for the current regime.
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
The precedent of flagrantly disobeying a lawful order is the one that cannot stand. I would go so far as to guess his CO agrees with a lot of what the LtCol said. But he still has to be CO.
Like when the generals disobeyed President Trump's lawful and binding orders to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan and then bragged about it?
I am aware. Got a solution other than obey no orders everywhere?
History would say you are correct. And if the people are sifted for compliance, more so. Sifted for wokeness, and ideology, even more so. Sift far enough and entire units of einstazgruppen can be found. that is what is going on, with the jab mandates, the woke training, etc- it is sifting.
The Washington Post is getting nervous that they might not have as firm a grip on the dogs of war as they believed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/15/will-marines-let-lt-col-scheller-off-with-slap-wrist/