WASHINGTON _ The nation's top military leaders, caught off-guard accompanying President Donald Trump to a photo op after nonviolent protesters were dispersed with military support, reached out to service members afterward with a message: This is not what we're about.
"We all committed our lives to the idea that is America," Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote by hand at the end of a memo about the military's defense of all Americans, and their constitutional right to protest. "We will stay true to that oath and the American people."
The June 2 memo was sent to all service members and made public Wednesday by the Joint Chiefs in a tweet.
