When are military uniforms allowed at political rallies? I took this picture off my TV today at a Trump town hall meeting.

If you are going to mention this, don't be hypocritical and not talk about the West Point cadets holding up the black panther salute IN uniform. In the military, we are supposed to be neutral to politics. This includes disparaging those with opposing views. The military has no place for either the left or right wing agenda. We defend the Constitution, not the political party or the politician. Please refer to your oath, which used to mean something, as well as your code of conduct both in and out of uniform.

Never. Maybe he is retired, but I am seeing this infraction a lot these days.

If this is a military member it he is definitely in violation....but in this day and age with so many "pretenders" (e.g. Stolen Valor) individuals out there that are "protected" because of there 1st Amendment right to impersonate one of our brothers or sisters, I'm surprised this is not a more common accordance. Either way, this individual compromised the honor we all have fought/fight for.

Only if you are acting in an official capacity. You cannot seem to give the appearance of a military unit's agreement with the positions of the politican. Whenever you are in uniform you are a representative of the military. An officer should know better. And for anyone thinking this is not an issue, imagine the officer at a David Duke rally, a pro-choice rally, or a gun-control rally. If you are going to attend, go in civvies.

Never

They're not!

I can't believe anybody in uniform or whoever wore the uniform is concerned about this issue. You should be worrying about when that sorry piece of garbage leaves office. If you have not noticed over 200 top echelon officers have been purged by this president because they don't share his liberal believes and get labeled as being un-loyal. I don't hear one word about the Army, Air Force or Navy personnel wearing camouflage utilities out in town, nor do I believe anybody in these branches ever heard of an iron.

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/134410p.pdf


SUBJECT: Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces
References: (a) DoD Directive 1344.10, “Political Activities by Members of the Armed
Forces on Active Duty,” August 2, 2004 (hereby canceled)
(b) Sections 973, 888, 101, and Chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code
(c) DoD Instruction 1334.1, “Wearing of the Uniform,” October 26, 2005
(d) Section 441a of title 2, United States Code
(e) through (i), see Enclosu

That officer should/will be demoted in the morning.

To everybody here who is confused, even if the officer is a reservist he is still in violation of DoD Directive 1344.10 (2008). Paragraph 4.1.4 spells out that a reservist is allowed to participate in the activities permitted and forbidden to active duty service members provided that the reservist does not do any of them in uniform. I think that's pretty clear.

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/134410p.pdf

Policy sees the uniform as official endorsement, period. Also, to the sea lawyers calling this a town hall and not a rally, the directive treats everything from a debate to a partisan meeting to a nonpartisan political meeting the same way, so that's no help.