Posted on 04/20/2025 1:18:12 PM PDT by logi_cal869
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently updated its guidance on the process to reinstate service members who left the military because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Though some service members are returning to the military, it would be premature to call this a win as the policy does not do adequate justice to service members who have been harmed and doesn’t address many concerns raised by advocates of this issue.
To put the recent policy into perspective, let’s first consider the severance package offered to transgender sailors who voluntarily leave the service. In March, the Navy announced that due to the new DoD policy that prohibits transgender troops from serving, transgender sailors who voluntarily separate will receive two full years’ worth of separation pay.
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Meanwhile, the much larger cohort of the “voluntarily separated” service members are not eligible for backpay and must serve two years. To add more insult to injury, the Air Force requires airmen desiring to return to sign a document stating, “My decision to separate was made freely and without coercion.” This language is disconcerting and reflects a profound disconnect between those in the DoD writing these memos and the experience of the hundreds of thousands who suffered terribly under the mandate. (When a former Air Force Intelligence Captain separated for the mandate pointed this out on X, the DoD Rapid Response account stated, “We are reviewing this.”)
Thus, unlike transgender sailors who will receive two years of separation pay for voluntary separation, those separated for the vaccine mandate who do not choose to return to service will receive nothing. Meanwhile the involuntarily separated will have the money they earned outside of the service taken out of their back pay and will accrue a four-year service commitment.
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And where the h*** is POTUS on covid era BS???
"Service members who refused the COVID-19 shot are heroes who stood up for the Constitution and deserve proper restitution and justice regardless of if they return to service. Their backpay shouldn’t be used as an arbitrarily calculated re-enlistment bonus."
I don’t see how RFK, Jr. is involved in this matter—or could become involved, either.
Those who pushed the VAX mandates should be forced to take the unused shots from those who refused. Make, no, force them to eat their own dog food. Force and no compromise.
2 years of pay for leaving???????
That is an incredible and ridiculous reward for someone who should just be kicked out.
This is Pete and Trump's issue since Trump is the one who defined what he would do for those troops.
Army should sign a statement that Army wrongfully pressured the soldier to accept an untested vaccine; that all pay and allowances will be paid at the rank the soldier held at the time he exited service, that upon passing all required tests, soldier will be immediately promoted without further ado but without back pay for the promotion, soldier will waive all actions against the Army in exchange for payment of all back pay and allowances, Army will issue an apology.
Why RFK Jr? This is DoD.
And President Trump has ALWAYS been against the mandates.
The problem here isn’t stingy treatment for vaccine mandate victims - the problem is overly generous severance policy for so-called “transgenders”.
The covid policies ALL originated under what is now RFK Jr’s aegis.
The word to DoD et al must either come from RFK Jr or POTUS.
NEITHER has happened.
I’m now waiting on POTUS.
All military personnel should claim to be members of congress. Congress is exempt from the vaccine mandate!
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