The lower ranks are just going to follow orders given to them by their superiors. The military really started to become compromised under Obama when he spent 8 years fundamentally transforming it and purging the leadership and replacing it with loyal leftist beaurocrats.

Trump's mistake was, while he increased funding for the military, he never went through and purged all those Obama appointees.

This is how I knew that the military was not going to save us. The brass was already lying to Trump about troop numbere and threatening to disobey orders if he used the Insurrection Act.

It's unrecognizable even from what I experienced only a decade ago.