‘Very much by design’: U.S. Armed Forces provide no training in the Constitution that recruits swear to defend

The U.S. military trains its personnel on virtually everything under the sun, yet fails to provide any training at all on the fundamental legal document of the United States of America – and the one every service member swears an oath to “support and defend.”

WorldNetDaily spoke to Dr. Chase Spears, a retired U.S. Army public affairs officer, writer and host of the Finding Your Spine podcast about this blatant oversight.

A service member’s sworn oath to support and defend the Constitution dates back hundreds of years in American history, Spears noted. He described the commitment as “a good and noble thing.” For while other militaries around the world swear allegiance to a ruler or a particular ruling party, Spears said, “the American military is set apart because we swear to our Constitution.”

Interestingly, he admitted that over the course of his two decades of service to his country, “it was hard to find anyone who actually read it.” As a result, “hardly anyone knows what’s actually written in the nation’s foundational document.”

Why don’t service members know the Constitution? Why don’t Americans, in general, understand it? These are two questions that heightened Spears’ interest in the topic, compelling him to write an article titled “The Case for a Constitutional Training Culture in the Military.” For Spears, the answer lies in a lack of “institutional instruction.”

He explained to WND, “Many schools are deliberately not teaching civics in elementary education, and the worst offenders are in the public school system.”

“That’s very much by design,” he added.

“They don’t want Americans to know civics because the public is much easier to control when isolated from their history,” Spears argued.

Specific to the military, he added, “We train them how to shoot, how to manage equipment, how to plan maneuvers, and so much more, but you won’t find a single line of instruction about the Constitution and how to uphold an oath to it.”

“There are also ‘equal opportunity’ trainings and ‘sexual harassment and prevention’ trainings that are mandated,” he shared.

“These all sound good on the surface, but through the years, they’ve become Trojan horses for hard leftwing Marxist ideologies to infiltrate unit culture.” Thus, the military has been influenced on how to think about “highly contentious political partisan issues,” but its personnel have not been trained on the Constitution that they’ve actually sworn to defend.

“This is extraordinarily problematic,” Spears lamented. “Ignorance to the military’s true purpose is how you get a military that has members who will say, ‘Of course you should take this experimental jab and lay aside your moral beliefs because you ceded your rights when you joined the military.’” But for Spears, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

“There is no such clause in the very Constitution we swear to,” a point also noted in the book titled “Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines” by Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr.

“Leaders who ignore a service member’s constitutionally protected rights are the kind of people helping separate soldiers from their history, and making the Pentagon and partisan whims of Washington, D.C. the ultimate authority,” Spears argued.

He encourages Defense Department leadership to strongly consider his words, paving a way to include training service members to know and understand the U.S. Constitution.

“Our military has to get concerned about the constitutional illiteracy filling its ranks,” he asserted.

“While there’s already precedent to train soldiers in basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, we should also be educating them to know the very document they swear to support and defend.”