Posted on 08/25/2021 9:19:49 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
The Pentagon is requiring all service members to get vaccinated against coronavirus, effective immediately.
The decision, announced in a memo from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, bumps up an earlier plan, which had called for people to get vaccinated by Sept. 15. The announcement of the previous deadline noted that the date could be moved up if a vaccine were to get FDA approval, and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received that approval earlier this week.
"To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force," Austin said in a 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 2019 (COVID-19) is necessary to protect the Force and defend the American people."
Austin directed the secretaries of the various military departments to have all Armed Forces members on active duty and in the ready reserves, including the National Guard, vaccinated if they have not already received their shots.
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“the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received that approval earlier this week”
That’s a huge stinking steaming lie of omission.
Screw em. Get out. Perhaps ALL the transgenders can fill the positions
They are taking orders from the CCP. So when China invades Taiwan us forces will be too sick to defend.
Religious exemption or General discharge.
Serviceman of all branches need to flock to Mexico... NOW. Abandon their bases, and guns. To oppose is RACIST..as the Dept of Defense Minister is a black. So be RACIST and make an exodus to Mexico.
Austin is willing to exterminate the Republics
troops for a KNOWN fake virus, using a KNOWN Bioweapon.
remind me, whose side is he on?
In before the pro-jab FReepers who’ll cheerfully get shots and wear masks 24/7
Since the polls show a smaller percentage of Republicans have received the vaccine and a larger percentage of them don’t want it, it’s just another way of purging the military of Republicans.
Hey!
VA!
Get ready for more business.
Double speak.
This fraud of a Defense Secretary is a disgrace! If I were a member of the armed forces, I would resign rather than put an untested ( long term testing is missing!) vaccine in my body! My body, my choice.
Problem is that unless you’re declared Eastern Orthodox, the heads of most major Christian sects, Islam, and Judaism have declared it is in the best interest of their flock to take the vaccine. Religious exemptions are going to be thrown back in the faces of the adherents.
Youre not ‘defending’ me by forcing some young person to allow you to put poison in their veins...
How can a dead or injured soldier be regarded as ‘protected’....
USMC is around 90% White.
Blacks and hispanics hate these vaccines as well...
and the beatings will continue until moral improves
IOW beatings will continue until moral improves
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