Pete Buttigieg joined the military to seek career advancement. This is transparent and obvious. But he still joined. And he was still deployed. And swift boating that is bad and sharing the WSJs swift boating op ed is bad. /1
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So, in the practical and legal sense, Pete never "gave up his freedom" the way an enlisted member of the armed forces did, as we can tell by the fact that he was a mayor and a naval intelligence officer simultaneously
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(Once you start learning about this it's really striking how shameless this implicit class system is It's in the Geneva Convention - if a hostile nation takes a commissioned officer prisoner you can't give them any orders, it's inhumane)
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yeah, you can tell the distinction is more substantial than semantic because enlisted people who get commissioned move out of enlisted status when that happens. Going officer gets you out of the old contract and into a completely different set of duties and responsibilities
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There's other people pointing out that Mayor Pete's direct commissioning is a very privileged path into service normally available only to MDs and the like (Apparently because of his great existing fluency in multiple languages)
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