I agree. I served 24 years in the Army. They pumped me full of all kinds of chemicals before each deployment. Didn’t have the luxury of saying no.
As a commander I had to deal with soldiers every year trying to avoid the mandatory flu shot. But as they old saying goes - 10% of your soldiers take up 90% of your time.
“... I had to deal with soldiers every year trying to avoid the mandatory flu shot.”
Interesting thing, sir, is I am willing to bet that a vast majority of the population has no idea that trying to stay alive using the determination of command telling us how, is not always logical to the one not knowing. But it is accepted as the best way to finish the mission. And that trust is what makes the military a unit and not a bunch of individuals that will be eliminated by the command or charlie, which ever comes first.
The military deals with numbers and replacements of the same, and only in later years career field slots allocated on the UMD, to accomplish a task. And not everyone is Audie Murphy and is willing to die for his/her country if it is needed.
But to determine the loss of their job and complaining about it by disagreeing with an order like this just further indicates that we have lacked in our work of getting the right people that understand the responsibility of their action and carry though. We have gained people who just complain about the way it is being accomplished with no recourse or information.
Those Marine pilots take a far greater risk doing their work than dying from a vaccine injection. I will say that they are stepping forward with their argument not by using religion as an excuse. But choosing to be separated this way doesn’t seem consistent with military history, tradition, or even intelligent reasoning. They have decided to take the action with nothing but the opinion of people not in command, or the know, influencing their decision to separate. And then complaining they want to keep their job? Following orders is part of the job.
wy69
I wonder what opinion,if any,you might have regarding my Post #60.