In a message to all U.S. military personnel, the nation’s highest-ranking military officers have rightly affirmed the armed forces’ absolute commitment to the Constitution.

In a statement signed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and the uniform service chiefs, military leaders made clear that the tradition of an “almost 250 years” commitment to the Constitution will hold. “As we have done throughout our history,” the Joint Chiefs said, “the U.S. military will obey lawful orders from civilian leadership … and remain fully committed to protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”