Posted on 11/24/2021 1:20:01 PM PST by ransomnote
Members of the United States Armed Forces who refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccine will soon be forced out of the service.
According to a November 16th memo signed by Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth, the service records of active-duty troops and reservists will be flagged on the day they refuse the jab, which follows a meeting with a medical professional and a second order to get vaccinated.
The mark will prevent soldiers from re-enlisting, being promoted, receiving future enlistment bonuses, attending service-related schools or receiving tuition assistance.
“I authorize commanders to impose bars to continued service for all soldiers who refuse the mandatory vaccine order without an approved exemption or pending exemption request,” wrote Wormuth. “The soldiers will remain flagged until they are fully vaccinated, receive an approved medical or administrative exemption, or are separated from the Army.”
This order also applies to National Guard Troops, including those serving in states whose governors do not require the vaccine. It essentially means that the mark on their records will end their career in the military.
Wormuth’s order is the culmination of a directive from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on August 25th that ordered all branches of the military to ensure that service members get fully vaccinated soon.
“To defend this nation, we need a healthy and ready force,” wrote Austin in the August memo. “After careful consultation with medical experts and military leadership, and with the support of the president, I have determined that mandatory vaccination against coronavirus disease is necessary to protect the Force and defend the American people.”
On Wednesday 17th November, the Department of Defense (DOD) reiterated Austin’s and the administration’s stance on vaccine mandates for the military. A spokesperson for the department said that the secretary has the authority “to establish a medical readiness requirement that applies to members of the National Guard,” adding that failure to meet this requirement “could jeopardise their status in the National Guard.”
News flash: we already have!
The generals and admirals. Would not surprise me.
Good point.
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Let’s say that I’m an E-9 with 19 years in service. Let’s also say I have a family. If I’m dishonorable discharge, I get nothing. Bupkis. Medical discharge, something.
Methinks that would piss me off.
5.56mm
So it would appear. From their webpage:
“Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous, both meaning "not concerned or interested at all." "Couldn't care less" is the older and more obvious phrase grammatically, but it has been confused for so long that both are now defined.”
In other words they know it is grammatically wrong but they decided to endorse a dumbed down variation because ungrammatical people used it that way for so long, it’s become practically the norm. How sad for our language.
Trump will pledge to reverse this travesty as his very first act upon being restored to the office of POTUS.
“I predict that after that happens Mexico will invade and the US will have to surrender.”
Both have pretty much happened already.
“those separated are allowed to rejoin with back-pay and seniority restored. I can dream, can’t I?”
Not a dream. Not at all.
A dead lock certainty.
Tuition assistance is the in-service program by which the military pays 75-90% of tuition for college classes. It’s separate from GI Bill.
With Trump or DeSantis that will happen.
Shame on Merriam-Webster for tolerating such grammatical imprecision! Oh, the abomination of accepting such informal variant idioms. Will it never end?
Considering all the serious things going on around us few people have the time nor (or should that be ‘or’?) the patience to quibble over such minutiae (yes, that is plural).
I really could care less if such trivialities bother you.
Want to bet is a lot more than they say
Oh wait doesn’t Biden’s Build Back Better have money for an Army of 300,000 Global Warming Nazis
I see what you did there. Like it and it may be needed.
“administrative exemption”
What on Earth is that?
My guess would be high ranking officers, critical personnel (i.e. speciallists) and transgenders.
Watch the dems head explode.
I think that has already happened.
WELCOME TO THE MILITIA, GENTLEMEN!
That’s what I was thinking except I would call it America’s Army. These soldiers can be regular Americans’ new protectors since our government and elected officials won’t do it. We would welcome these fine folk among us.
I hope it is not wishful thinking but I predict lots of damage settlements paid out of wasteful spending programs if we ever get enough sanity back.
If so it will be a pittance class action settlement.
Remember the bonus army? MacArthur was so brave. Six tanks, cavalry and troops against veterans, women and children in a shanty camp.
Roosevelt was eventually overridden and the bonus paid.
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