Posted on 12/16/2022 6:23:13 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
Senate Votes Against Measure to Reinstate Troops Kicked Out over COVID Vaccines By Eric Lendrum December 16, 2022
On Thursday, the United States Senate overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have ordered the Department of Defense (DOD) to reinstate military personnel who had been discharged or otherwise separated from their branch due to refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine.
As reported by the Washington Examiner, the measure was defeated with 54 votes against and just 40 votes in favor. The vote precedes the coming vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill that funds the DOD. Republicans did manage to score a victory in NDAA negotiations by including a measure that officially ends the military’s COVID vaccine mandate, even despite opposition to the proposal by Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
The reinstatement measure was championed by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), and would have seen the return of about 8,400 service members who were ultimately forced out across all six branches. But Democrats in opposition claimed that such service members were rightfully removed for disobeying an order.
“The service members who refuse to do that and who were discharged from service, that’s the way it has to work in the military. Orders are not optional in the United States military,” said Congressman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. “And if Congress expresses the opinion that they are, I cannot imagine anything that would more significantly undermine the good order and discipline within our military.”
According to Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh, 98 percent of all active-duty members had received one of the three major COVID vaccines, either the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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Absolutely sick, pathetic, and criminal for the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee to lie to the public about how unlawful orders are called out and disobeyed all the time in the military.
"Just following orders" didn't work at Nuremberg I and won't work at Nuremberg II.
54 votes against... is not overwhelming.
The 40 for is pathetic. Republicans did not care enough to vote.
We’re not even in the storm yet. This is just the clouds on the horizon.
Many probably moved and have jobs now.
Give them all retirement benefits, and take the money from Ukrainian grifters.
No surprise here, the Democrats never really considered the military members part of their constituency, so there’s that.
Nope, their constituency would be the illegal aliens, convicted felons . . .
“that’s the way it has to work in the military. Orders are not optional in the United States military,” said Congressman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.”
Big talk from a weasel career politician that never spent any time in the military.
Disgraceful
Adam Smith is a bastard. Like his BFF inslee, there’s no reason why they’re in office other than the voters are morons collectively.
The U.S. Military is in big trouble. All they can recruit these days are freeloading, border-jumpin’, illegal aliens. The trouble with these idiots is that they are naturally cowards. Yellow bellies who would rather run than fight. Rather than stand up against the Socialist and communist governments they installed, they run for the border like a bunch of thieves who just burglarized the local Taco Bell. This country is in big trouble.
Who voted against the troops in the GOP?
There’s a problem, Smith’s district has a large military base and the populace is full of vets!? There’s no excuse for him representing North Pugetopolis other than everyone in the 3 county Pugetopolis area are insane.
Take a wild guess
Probably the Romney crew.
There is a definite parallel between the sodomites in the current government and those of Nazi Germany.
No shot and you’re gone but publicly show your perversions in uniform and you’re gold.
I’m not even confident of readiness anymore.
Where’s the list of the 4 and the list of the 6?
Bingo!
The Dems view would seem to put the "Nurenberg Defense" back on the table. As far as orders are optional, the view ignores the oath taken by commissioned officers to the Constitution.
> “Orders are not optional in the United States military,” ... <
I am disappointed to think any government official believes that. Illegal or immoral orders are more than just optional. They are not to be obeyed.
Yes it is. And it deserves to be.
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