McChrystal fired.

[Kevin]

The lesson? When anyone in the press ask to tag along or interview you or your staff, you say no.

Or you don't make private remarks around them because they will be made public. People in the military question the President all the time (in my experience from my time serving) and they question command too, but they still follow and carry out the orders given, once given to the best of their ability. I wouldn't want a military that didn't question command decisions, when it's an appropriate time to question them. In the heat of battle you follow the plan, you follow the orders, you carry out the mission (as the plans will get fubar, but you do the mission based on the goals of the plan).

During a planning meeting? During downtime? In private? Sure you can question the leadership them and I think it's healthy to do so. Heck you are trained to follow lawful orders, and that is stressed. You are trained to pay attention to the orders and reject them if they aren't lawful, as a human being you are going to question them in general based on that. But a soldier also understands that they often don't have the whole plan in front of them and do do what you are told.

So I figured he would likely be fired over this. But there was a part of me that said, "Doesn't that show exactly what our country stand for that the military can speak out against the president while at the same time following his orders?" But I would have been very surprised had he not been relieved of command.