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The president isn't the C-in-C after all, and no one seems to have noticed
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 11:41amTechnically Congress is the one with the power to say where our troops go and where they don't.
But that stopped being true several generations ago.
In place of Congress, the Commander-In-Chief gives the orders to the troops.