Ughh my damned scissors are covered with so much hash they are starting to take a lot of effort to cut. Its Northern Lights, sticky and sickly sweet smelling, like cotton candy on a hot day.
I guess if one did not know what branch another served in (Although if you read the post you will see that it was mentioned), you would pose the question like you did, but since I had already stated what branch I was in I assumed you had read it. No harm done.
Not just officers, enlisted and warrants can also disobey orders on grounds of "Right or Wrong" but you may as well know that just because you disobey an unlawful order does not make your crime of disobeying it go away. You still get punished, but so does the person issuing the command. Anyway if you want someone to know nothing then you lie to them. Lets say i want you to run into a home and shoot everyone inside, now i know they aren't the enemy, but the people in that house pissed me off for some reason and I want them dead. All I gotta do is tell my men that "Terrorists" are holed up inside and won't come out and its their job to get rid of them before they kill us all. Nuff said, I tell a lie and the men do my bidding knowing nothing about the real motives. Easy! A conspiracy of many, only one is culpable though, the rest were duped.
Not every floor had to have demo, normally just the top and bottom floors, but the WTC was built like 3 buildings stacked on top of one another so I suppose there would ahve been more than typical. Not sure your guy's estimates of how much thermite it must have taken to do what it did is any where near correct. I have no idea since i have never actually pulled a building myself.
How many people occupy the situation room? None I hope, not unless there is a "Situation". Hollywood embellishes and distorts, never take anything you see in the movies as pertaining to anything that is "Real". Its all make believe. But im sure you know that, just like you know that cars that fall off cliffs do not explode 99.999% of the time in reality, but in the movies its 100%.