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Here Are The Republicans Who Voted Against Reinstating Troops Who Refused The Vaccine
Daily Caller ^ | 12/16/2022 | MICAELA BURROW

Posted on 12/16/2022 6:46:57 AM PST by DFG

Four Republican senators joined Democrats in shooting down an amendment to a massive defense authorization package that would have reinstated troops discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed the Senate 83-11 Thursday night, and along with it a provision overturning the Biden administration’s service-wide vaccine requirement. Republican Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mike Rounds of South Dakota voted no on a last-minute amendment to the bill re-enlisting thousands of troops separated for refusing the vaccine mandate, collapsing the proposal 54 to 40.

“These were direct orders from commanding officers,” Cassidy said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation, referring to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who announced the vaccine mandate. “I voted to end the COVID vaccine mandate in the military, but it is not Congress’s place to intervene in the chain of command and set a precedent for military personnel to ignore direct orders.”

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: covid; military; reinstatement; vaccine
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1 posted on 12/16/2022 6:46:57 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

not surprising, it’s always the same worms over and over again.


2 posted on 12/16/2022 6:49:31 AM PST by euram
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To: DFG

Eyepatch McCain would have joined them, if he were in the Senate rather than the House.


3 posted on 12/16/2022 6:50:17 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 14 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: DFG

I wouldn’t want to go back in. However, I would like retirement benefits.

I think they might have moved on to other avenues by now...


4 posted on 12/16/2022 6:50:39 AM PST by EEGator
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To: DFG

Cassidy is a fool.


5 posted on 12/16/2022 6:50:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: DFG

The usual democRATS.


6 posted on 12/16/2022 6:53:01 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: DFG
but it is not Congress’s place to intervene in the chain of command and set a precedent for military personnel to ignore direct orders.

Why not, if these dickheads do the wrong thing?

7 posted on 12/16/2022 6:53:58 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: DFG

People on the right need to realize that the US military is now their enemy. The military is being intentionally filtered to support leftist ideology only. Do not support it as it is now constructed.


8 posted on 12/16/2022 6:54:19 AM PST by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard. )
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To: DFG

Hey, CAssidy, it’s your job to try to fight injustices where you can...is it right not to interfere with that ridiculous mandate????


9 posted on 12/16/2022 6:55:29 AM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: DFG

The article says that 8400 service personnel’s careers have been destroyed by Austin’s wrong-headed mandate. It says nothing about the wrecked morale that now exists in the ranks and those who have washed their hands of the military forever. I dedicated over thirty years of service, and I’m counting the lucky stars that I didn’t have to go through this horror show.


11 posted on 12/16/2022 6:59:29 AM PST by iontheball
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To: DFG
"Direct orders from commamding officers"?

They were improper orders and the soldiers were right to disobey. The commanding officers should be punished not the soldiers.

12 posted on 12/16/2022 7:00:35 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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“These were direct orders from commanding officers,”

Yeah, if you're dumb enough to consider Fauci a commanding officer.

13 posted on 12/16/2022 7:02:19 AM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: EEGator

8,400 who didn’t die suddenly at least


14 posted on 12/16/2022 7:04:55 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: DFG
“These were direct orders from commanding officers,” Cassidy said in a statement...“I voted to end the COVID vaccine mandate in the military, but it is not Congress’s place to intervene in the chain of command and set a precedent for military personnel to ignore direct orders.”

Absolute, utter BS spoken by a true moron with no clue as to what he's speaking about. Commanders at all levels regularly respond to congressional inquiries based on complaints from service members and their families made to their congress critters. Hell, when I was a captain in the Army, I filed a congressional complaint with Senator Santorum regarding some issues in my higher command, and the matter was addressed overnight. There was a time apparently, when generals took senators seriously.

15 posted on 12/16/2022 7:07:49 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: BobL
"Eyepatch McCain would have joined them, if he were in the Senate rather than the House."

He was in the Senate.

16 posted on 12/16/2022 7:07:59 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Pollard

True.

Give them benefits, Honorable Discharge, and GI Bill.


17 posted on 12/16/2022 7:09:34 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Sicon

“He was in the Senate.”

Nope, that was his father (no eyepatch). This is Eyepatch McCain:

https://search.brave.com/search?q=eyepatch+mccain


18 posted on 12/16/2022 7:10:29 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 14 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: iontheball; Travis McGee

I’m sure those 8400 are eager to return to submit to the depraved powers that drove them out in the first place. /s

“Readiness”... ready for what? Yipes.

Big windfall for the private sector!


19 posted on 12/16/2022 7:13:07 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: DFG

Without even reading the names, I say get rid of the bastards!


20 posted on 12/16/2022 7:15:32 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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