[Captain Walker]

The people being put back in did not get discharged because they refused to take the vaccine. They were discharged because they chose to disobey a direct order in defiance of the UCMJ.

Then why weren't they court-martialed?

[whitney69]

“Then why weren’t they court-martialed?”

There are more ways to be dischraged without a full court martial. What the soldiers refusing the order got was an Administrative Discharge. If your command seeks to separate you, it is required they notify you in writing on the basis for the separation and the recommended characterization of service. There are three characterizations of administrative separation:

Honorable
General Under Honorable Conditions
Under Other than Honorable Conditions (“OTH” or “UOTHC”)

General under honorable was what most of them got. Some, who had other negative problems that led to the determination they should be separated in the best interest of both and the corp got OTH commenserate with their added misbehaviors.

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