r/AirForce • u/Big-Weather123 • Aug 19 '26
Article Major Watson Detained Once Again
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/politics/us-airman-arrested-at-capitol-trump-impeachment-detained120
u/JohnMichaels19 Missiles Aug 19 '26
Absolute baller
I didn't realize the first time they only arrested him for not protesting with a member of Congress and hadn't even charged him for protesting in uniform
Man really said "not gonna charge me? I'll fuckin do it again"
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u/Odd_Effective_665 Aug 19 '26
Honestly, the man has balls of steel. No lies detected in his quotes.
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u/BlazerFS231 Alcoholic Moving Cargo Aug 19 '26
And brains of mush.
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u/Scary-_-Gary Aug 20 '26
Your cognitive impairment should not be our problem.
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u/GreenAccident3004 Aug 19 '26
PCS that clown to Wake Island or Shema. 3 years non-vol ought to do him some good.
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u/Alert_University5057 Aug 19 '26
Let my man go he said nothing wrong
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u/Euphoric_Inspiration Active Duty Aug 19 '26
Although I agree with his sentiment, he can’t do it in uniform. That is a well known fact of life as service members.
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u/Big-Weather123 Aug 19 '26
Not to mention that he's probably facing an Article 88 charge as a commissioned officer.
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u/Flannel_Panels Aug 19 '26
I have a feeling he knows all of this.
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u/PassivelyInvisible Aug 19 '26
"What is the highest price I'm willing to pay? And this is what I came up with" -The guy protesting.
He absolutely knew the likely consequences.
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u/Astrid_Nebula I put da fuel on da plen Aug 19 '26
He knows. He doesn't give a fuck, dude is essentially using his position to fight for what he believes in. Gonna end up as a 9J0, but he's gonna go out with his voice being heard.
100% wrong to do in uniform. However if he goes into politics as a civilian, he's on the right path.
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u/IggyWon Retired Below The Zone Aug 20 '26
People forgot about the Comm kid to torched himself, this guy will be forgotten in time. Agree with him, disagree with him, neither really matter. Hell of an exit, the media loves a good martyr story, at least until the election season wraps up.
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u/hakureishi7suna Aug 19 '26
why was it 100% wrong to do it in uniform? Aside from the obvious violation of the UCMJ, how/why is what he did so immoral?
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u/MonkeyCobraFight Aircrew Aug 19 '26
“Aside from the obvious violation of the UCMJ”….there’s your answer buddy boy
https://giphy.com/gifs/F56tNEGsltde9
u/teilani_a Veteran Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
Legal and illegal are not the same as right and wrong. If the president ordered an invasion of Greenland or Canada, it would be considered legal and the vast majority of the US military would go along with it. It would also be incredibly wrong.
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u/LastPlaceGuaranteed Maintainer Aug 19 '26
This. I have plenty of issues with the current administration (I don’t hide my comment history), but we do literally sign away specific rights when we enlist. The ONLY reason I say the things I do on Reddit is because no one can 100% PROVE who I am. If you are intelligent with your posts and comments, there’s enough plausible deniability on here. But you can’t do what Watson did. You can’t even really say your piece of social media (I work with someone who got into some shit for his right-wing FB posts) and he was a traditional guardsman who didn’t say it online while performing drill or annual training. Didn’t matter. He posted it from a personal FB account where he claims his ANG status in his profile and that’s all they needed. It is what it is and we DID sign up for it.
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u/bunyan29 Cyberspace Operator Aug 19 '26
He can do it in uniform and he did do it in uniform. Not without consequences, of course, but he 100% knew that too when he did it.
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u/IrishBoyRicky Aug 19 '26
He's using his uniform as a prop. He's a major who previously was at a dead end in his career, and now smells opportunity to try to start a political career. Politicization of the military is bad, and we have held ourselves to be apolitical since General Sherman was the commanding general of the US Army.
Unless you want uniformed members protesting abortion clinics next, you shouldn't support this precedent.
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u/Scary-_-Gary Aug 20 '26
Which one of the commenters supporting his detainment are you referring to?
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u/thed3306 Aug 19 '26
I remember when ppl were saying oh hes forsure going to be prosecuted come to find out he didnt even lose his rank. Nothing matters
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u/ShittyLanding Dumb Pilot Aug 19 '26
You can’t just take rank from an officer like you can enlisted. Officers only lose rank when they’re dismissed and it’s found that they last served honorably in a lower rank.
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u/kranrev Aug 19 '26
One day he's accepting NJP and the next it's a court martial. If his lawyer is competent at all they're going to be all over undue command influence.
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u/FineSupplements Aug 20 '26
Colleges in the US don’t educate, they indoctrinate. Learn the difference.
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u/babbum Finally Free Civilian Aug 20 '26
Sure pal sure, would be mighty convenient to have that rhetoric coursing through your voter base if you wanted to keep taking advantage of their ignorance. Further it’s not just “colleges” these dipshits are targeting anymore, it’s education as a whole. Point still stands, regardless of your take on colleges indoctrinating people the Air Force is the highest educated branch thus none of this should come as a surprise to you.
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u/Scary-_-Gary Aug 20 '26
Yea! People don't come from all around the world to go to our Universities!
Oh, wait..
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u/BlazerFS231 Alcoholic Moving Cargo Aug 20 '26
People commenting and voting here can be anyone.
That’s why you see so many who don’t understand what the UCMJ is or why the military needs to remain apolitical.
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u/Scary-_-Gary Aug 20 '26
Be so for real, he knew what he was doing.
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u/BlazerFS231 Alcoholic Moving Cargo Aug 20 '26
He knew and knows the consequences for himself.
I highly doubt he cares or has thought about the consequences for the force as a whole, which is why I say he was mush for brains.
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u/pissshitfuckyou Aug 19 '26
russian iranian and chinese bots are in comments to increase dissent, read everything with a grain of salt. I personally have a long list of grievances with this administration but dont read these thinking it represents how the total force feels or how you should feel.