Posted on 09/29/2021 1:43:02 AM PDT by blueplum
The US military is making rapid progress in COVID-19 vaccinations after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin mandated the shots last month.
As of Friday, 93 percent of the country's 1.4 million active-duty service members had at least one shot, meaning about 97,000 were still unvaccinated, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday.
'We are seeing, as we expected to see, our troops do what is expected of them,' Kirby said at a press briefing....
...According to the dashboard, which will be updated on Wednesday, 73 percent of all troops have received at least one shot, when reservists and guardsmen are included in the total force strength of 2.2 million....
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Just hope this population doesn’t have widespread outbreaks similar to every other population with a high “vaccination” rate (makes me chuckle everytime I think about this “vaccine” which doesn’t actually stop the disease. We can’t afford to lose any more military talent after the damage already done by the illegal regime since back in January.
The Vax does not work.
I would say as a military retiree, I am glad I’m not in a position to have make the decision to get the shot or get an other than honorable discharge, especially if I had 17 or 18 years in. I would not criticize someone who gets out but, frankly, I don’t know if I would have had the guts. They will be losing a lot that they’ve worked hard and long to get. I also feel for the 18 year old E nothings because they will coerced. There’s a big difference in an E-7 telling another E-7 he needs to get vaxxed and an E-7 telling and E-1. Just for the record, I am not “vaxxed” and will not get it.
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