The Navy Jacks Mission

I do solemnly swear 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 G-d.

This is the Oath of Office sworn by every young officer who accepts a commission in the United States Armed Services. Most Navy Jacks have sworn either this Oath or the very similar versions that apply to enlisted personnel or the National Guard.

None of them has an expiration date!

Think about that. You can resign your commission... you can retire from the sea... and yet this Oath you swore before G-d holds just as surely today as it did the day you raised your right hand and swore it. While there is breath in your body, you have a duty to your Nation and to the Constitution that defines our national character.

Within the context of the Constitution, a right is a definitive attribute of the American condition. A right is not a privilege that Government bestows upon the people, but rather a freedom intrinsic to the people that Government is forbidden to proscribe.

But there are other ways to deny Americans their rights, and the most effective of these is to render them so difficult to exercise in practice that the people cease to try. Therefore...

The mission of the Navy Jacks is to employ all measures consistent with the letter and the spirit of the United States Constitution in order to guarantee the ability of American citizens to assert their Constitutional rights.

How does this work in practice?

• We stand between American citizens demonstrating for liberty and thugs who would intimidate them into silence.
• We stand between American citizens speaking freely in the public square and police who would silence them because they lack a government permit.