As a retired SNCO, I think the forced jab, along with the less-than-honorable discharges for saying no, and the 95% rejection of conscious objectors of the jab, explains it.
Honestly, the lip service to DEI was present going back to the 1970s. We had to go to race relations and women in the military ranks training since I started. Everyone knew you had to be colorblind and not overtly racist/sexist. I knew some dudes who were gay and quite a few ladies who were lesbians but they kept it quiet and only part of the personal lives.
Even so there was a successive turning of the volume up with each new year. I got out when Clinton was president. I’d hate to have been in when Obama reigned!
But getting forced to take an experimental vaccine? After everyone knew about Agent Orange, the horrible shots during Desert Shield/ Storm that caused permanent damage and the burn barrel/pits controversy?
That heavy-handed approach by DoD on the Covid shots was just a complete breach of traditional trust.
As a former junior officer that was blessed with patient and knowlegable NCOs, I heartily agree.
The military is not going to recover from the illegal diktats. The majority join for one our two hitches, and why risk your life or permanent health conditions for that?
For the others who would think of it as a career, who would start down such a narrow career path where you could be forced out without a pension a year or two from retirement because you refused to be injection raped as part of a medical-political experiment? Who would start down that path as a
“I got out when Clinton was president.”
Nixon was president when I got out. There wasn’t any woke crap when I served.