Newsmax
by Paul Scicchitano
January 23, 2013

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Schmitz tells Newsmax that it is questionable whether Panetta has the authority to make such a change to America’s “land and naval forces,” since this authority is specifically granted in the Constitution to Congress.

“My first question as a commander frankly would be is this a legal order? And to answer that question I would have to find out by what authority, and for what purpose, did the secretary of defense do what he did here,” said Schmitz, who is also a Newsmax contributor.

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“Last time I checked the secretary of defense serves under Article 2 of the Constitution,” Schmitz added, reading from the Constitution. “He’s not a member of Congress and he does not independently have the constitutional authority to ‘make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.’”

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