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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not surprising, it’s always the same worms over and over again.
Eyepatch McCain would have joined them, if he were in the Senate rather than the House.
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...
Cassidy is a fool.
The usual democRATS.
Why not, if these dickheads do the wrong thing?
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.
Hey, CAssidy, it’s your job to try to fight injustices where you can...is it right not to interfere with that ridiculous mandate????
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.
They were improper orders and the soldiers were right to disobey. The commanding officers should be punished not the soldiers.
Yeah, if you're dumb enough to consider Fauci a commanding officer.
8,400 who didn’t die suddenly at least
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.
He was in the Senate.
True.
Give them benefits, Honorable Discharge, and GI Bill.
“He was in the Senate.”
Nope, that was his father (no eyepatch). This is Eyepatch McCain:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=eyepatch+mccain
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!
Without even reading the names, I say get rid of the bastards!
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