Posted on 04/11/2025 10:10:59 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Under Joe Biden, approximately 8,000 service members were discharged from the military for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
In January 2025, President Trump ordered a full reinstatement to any service member who was expelled from the armed forces due to the COVID vaccine mandate, restoring them to their former rank with full pay.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined Fox News to discuss efforts to welcome back these service members who were discarded and treated so badly by the Biden administration.
Hegseth stated, “We’re psyched. This is one of the made promises kept from President Trump. We have followed through at the Defense Department. If you are a person of conscience, a person of faith who believe that you shouldn’t have to take an experimental vaccine in order to serve in our military, we will apologize to you.”
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Great news undoing a dispicable act by a dispicable man.
Top bad there’s no way to undo the injuries these shots caused.
Yes, GREAT news! Is Fauci still alive?
It's not the order - it's the cowards and sociopaths who issued it and carried it out. Until those people are removed and severe consequences put in place to prevent anyone from repeating such diktats to force chemical rape, why go back under their control?
I wouldn't even answer the mail. The entity wouldn't exist to me anymore.
So nice when what should happen, actually does happen.
These people were done wrong by their government.
A severe betrayal
Absolutely great news. It is always great news when justice prevails.
This is great news but I wonder about all the other Americans who worked in healthcare and in private industry who were fired for their beliefs.
How’re they conna collect?
Absolutely!!!
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“If you are a person of conscience, a person of faith who believe that you shouldn’t have to take an experimental vaccine... “
Shouldn’t be limited to only those things. Could add more: “I don’t wanna.” “It hasn’t been properly tested according to industry standards.” “Don’t tell me what to do.” “My body, my choice.”
I wonder how many are going to come back. People - and life - move on...
(I wonder how many are going to come back.)
Good question. I wonder how much in back-pay they will have accumulated that’s owed to them?
I want to understand this issue better. I never served so I do not completely understand military chain of command, orders, punishment, and rights or lack thereof.
Is requiring vaccination a lawful military order? Not whether or not it was a bad idea. I’ve heard from ex-military family that there was no question about it. You got vaccinated as ordered and some missions even required extraordinary vaccines. But others said they could be refused under proper guidelines and adjudication.
If a vaccine is refused and deemed insubordination what is the proper punishment?
Who has the authority to require military vaccines?
Unfortunately, while active-duty military, you have no recourse when given a direct order.
More typically, refusal to follow the same, results in things arguably worse than getting kicked out. Like Military Prison.
God bless them for what they went through.
“...severe consequences put in place to prevent anyone from repeating such diktats to force chemical rape, why go back under their control?”
The world lived in by the military member is not the same as the civilian world. It’s a world based upon discipline and like thinking for the level that you work.
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. The military didn’t care what they were refusing to do, just they were refusing to do something they were ordered to do.
At that time the main refusal was based upon saying there was human DNA in the vaccines which hadn’t been used for injections since 1985. It wasn’t there. So that reasoning wasn’t valid. And the three identified reactions from the vaccines were anaphylaxis, which can happen with a allergy shot, and myocarditis and pericarditis which are very rare and can be corrected with medication.
So by saying the members were discharged because they refused to take the vaccines, is not the truth. It is a way to spectacularize a story. They refused an order and were not granted the opportunity of relief from it. And the military is a different world that runs differently than the civilian world. If the government is going to rescend an order, then that’s one thing. If they are going to rescend an order based upon something other than the truth, that isn’t right.
wy69
Great, great, great!!!!
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