officer, I can tell you that as an active-duty guy, you have to stay the crap away from partisanship! There was a guy in my overseas command, a physician O-5, who got totally (and rightly) reamed by the Admiral C.O. for sending a command-wide email endorsing a certain presidential candidate! Wow, stupid move, buddy!
To be political on duty is a violation of our oaths. It’s a violation of our ethos as officers. And it’s got to be brutally crushed – even Barack Obama understood that when he properly canned General Stanley McChrystal for having a staff that thought it was okay to diss the President to reporters…
Schlichter is totally correct, here.