"I was not ordered to stand down..."

"I was not ordered to stand down. I was ordered to remain in place...."

Sure glad we got that question all cleared up!

Now, I'm a lifelong civvy, mostly unfamiliar with the nuances of military discipline and jargon, but, out in the not-uniformed world, that kind of fine-hair-splitting language might be considered a tad disingenuous, to say the least.