but that dont matter brah yeah there’s a chain of command but da prez also got da authority to straight up make a direct order to anybody in da military. he’s da commander in chief brah his word is final. dont matter whether he tells da sec of def an order he wants, who then carries that shit down da chain or he directly orders some grunt to do something. obviously the lower rank u are, da less likely da prez will be able to directly contact u since homie he dont got ur phone number lmao but he def could find a way to get in contact with u directly if he really wanted to and then give u n order straight up.