From the NYTimes:
The crowning chapter of Doug Mastriano’s military career — a stint on the faculty of the U.S. Army War College — has flared up in his campaign for Pennsylvania governor.
Two former professors at the War College in Carlisle, Pa., publicly declared Mr. Mastriano unfit for public office. A photograph surfaced of Mr. Mastriano posing in a Confederate uniform with other faculty. And Mr. Mastriano’s Ph.D. dissertation has been criticized as deeply flawed, with a former academic adviser saying his doctorate rests “on very shaky grounds.”
As unsere deutschen Freunde would say, "Ja, und?"
Well, The Times has this:
“The officer corps is sworn to defend the Constitution rather than any one person or president,” Tami Davis Biddle, who was chair of the War College’s faculty council, wrote in an opinion article for a Harrisburg newspaper. “None of its members is entitled to toy with insurrection, treat Jan. 6 as legitimate protest, or follow election deniers who would undercut our most important political institutions.”
Professor Biddle's editorial is not only focussed on St. Sen. (and now GOP cand. for PA Gov.) Doug Mastriano, but also on Rep Scott Perry.
She writes:
Watching our system work reliably was, for me, an ongoing source of pride. Until 2020. We took for granted that a president who lost an election would respect and protect the smooth power transition vital to a well-functioning, prosperous society. More than 60 courts found no evidence of interference in the 2020 election. By rejecting those results and supporting the insurrection and the Big Lie about the 2020 election, Doug Mastriano and Scott Perry have rejected the oath they swore to the Constitution when they became officers. Instead, they align themselves with the MAGA movement’s attack on the democratic institutions that have made our nation productive, stable, secure, and a beacon of hope for the world.
Even though both Perry and Mastriano came through the military’s professional education system—Mastriano even taught for a time at the US Army War College—they have chosen to put their personal interests ahead of the nation’s. Perry was so deeply involved in the insurrection he sought a pardon from Mr. Trump. Mastriano was present at the Capitol on January 6th, he urged people on but now accepts no responsibility for what happened.[Emphasis added.]
You can find the entire editorial at The Internet Archive.
As I wrote back in June of this year:
PA State Senator (and now GOP candidate for PA Governor) Doug Mastriano joined the United States Army after college and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant.
This is the oath every commissioned officer takes:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.And each time (and there have been two) he was sworn into the Pennsylvania Senate, Doug Mastriano took this oath:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity.
And Doug Mastriano has betrayed both solemn oaths.
