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Commissioning is done to ensure the President is fully accountable for
what the military does in defense of the nation, and this is why officers
serve at the pleasure of the President. It is fundamentally different in
nature from the enlisted contract.
Flowing from the constitutional context is the legal context. There are
several U.S. and international legal requirements and distinctions for commissioned officers. For example, under international law, a warship
must be commanded by a commissioned officer. This inextricably binds the
state to the actions of the ship. Likewise, under U.S. law, all commanding officers must be commissioned officers. This binds the power and
accountability of the commander-in-chief, the executive, to all military command positions.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017/october/know-what-officer- commission-means
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