Biden Says Troops Should be DISHONORABLY Discharged if They Disobey Order to Get COVID Vaccine

Daily Mail UK ^ | 9/22/21 | Morgan Phillips

[sevinufnine]

The Pentagon ordered all service members to get vaccinated last month and didn't rule out a court martial for those who don't. More than 800,000 service members out of around 1.4 million still needed to get their shots at the time of the mandate, according to Pentagon data. But during the budget bill's markup under the House Armed Services Committee, an amendment, now section 716, proposed by Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., made its way into the bill that prohibited 'any discharge but honorable' for vaccine refusal. 'I am appalled that the Biden Administration is trying to remove my amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that prevents anything but an honorable discharge for service members who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine,' Green said in a statement to DailyMail.com. 'This was a bipartisan amendment — every Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee agreed to it.'

[firebrand]

A mandate doesn’t give you a choice.

It’s sad that we have agreed to use this misleading term for what are basically free choices.

[sevinufnine]

I understand what you’re trying to say, but to keep your position in the military it is a mandate for that situation. But not if you are ok will leaving.

[firebrand]

I question the use of the term “mandate.”

There are many situations where the circumstances change and one’s behavior must change accordingly or there are certain results. No one is forced. They choose one or the other.

Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer, said that Alaskans are used to taking care of themselves and one another. One can imagine her pain as people are needlessly dying in hospital hallways, as the state has reached the limits of its ability to care for Alaskans.