Posted on 11/04/2021 11:26:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Two months after the Pentagon began requiring all troops to get the coronavirus vaccine or face dismissal, the vast majority have now had shots, in part because none received a religious exemption, military officials said. https://t.co/3zpPg5hpG6
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) November 4, 2021
Troops who refuse the coronavirus vaccine won’t see any extra protections or leniency in how their dismissals are handled, Defense and Veterans Affairs officials confirmed Wednesday.
Instead, decisions on whether to give those individuals other-than-honorable discharges — potentially blocking them from a host of veterans benefits — will be left to local commanders, and their cases won’t receive any preferential evaluations for veterans benefits eligibility.
Air Force and Space Force officials announced that about 8,500 airmen missed the Nov. 2 deadline to get the Vaccine. That represents 3 percent of total Air Force personnel.
SOURCE — MILITARY TIMES
US AIR FORCE: 8,500 active duty members miss deadline for COVID-19 shots – https://t.co/94MLLd6oXI pic.twitter.com/7ZxVcy71qE
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 3, 2021
Back then - assuming that was some time ago, there would have been no reason. Everything Has Changed
“My neighbor stated the VA is requiring his father to have a covid test every time they visit.”
When did this start?
A relative of mine goes to the VA often, and at the most recent visit (Sept) didn’t get asked to take a covid test before his appointment.
Chunga85 wrote:
“Section 716 of the NDAA made it through the house. I called the sponsor’s office (Green, TN) and the staffer told me all the democrats on the armed services committee voted in favor of it too.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350/text
“(a) Prohibition.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member of an Armed Force under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of a military department subject to discharge on the basis of the member choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine may only receive an honorable discharge.”
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What’s the next step for the NDAA, Senate? Or _resident’s desk?
SMH
Diana in Wisconsin wrote:
“Luckily, there are plenty of JOBS for all of the Ex-Military leaving the ranks over this.
ONE bright spot, though just one. :(
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After the ETS from OSHA was published today, there may be no jobs available that do not require the shots, unless the company is 99 employees or less.
And OSHA is working on that angle also.
See Post #62. You can have that sh!t.
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Sorry, but your comment was F-ing stupid!
Makes me cry. There is zero science here; it’s tyranny. First my ancestors were told by the Nazis they couldn’t run their businesses. Then that they couldn’t go to schools. It wasn’t that long until their lives were threatened and then taken. Do we not worry about this trend?
Right? What the f would the government and media lapdogs even increase if this were Ebola with 50% deaths??
Agree.
Individual choice which I believe is the issue. Those who chose the jab vs those not wanting should be the Constituional issue, where the courts are lacking. I don’t see any “idiots” at that position, other than this post.
97% of the Air Force are not doing it by personal choice. They are at least uninformed.
I was scared to death of Ebola those years ago when we had the stories of them coming in. No travel restrictions. I made my son get a flu nasal just to help sort out if anything started proliferating.
This whole time I haven’t been overly impressed. It can be trouble for some, but still not convinced it’s worth all this hysteria. My MIL did die from it, but the rest of us had it also, including elderly, and wasn’t much more than a solid flu. Zero hospitalizations. My MIL did of course go to hospital and rather shockingly died, but she was very fat, which colors my thinking more that certain types need to be careful.
1969 one of the guys in line asked “What are all of these shots for?” The medic giving the shots answered “Every disease you can think of. Keep moving, recruit.”
Yeah, I read that after my post.
My take? Businesses that want to remain successful WILL find a way around these government-imposed mandates. Not saying it will work for all sectors, but it can be done.
I managed a business during the 0bamacare nightmare and we went ‘In, Around, Under and Through’ all that @sshat & our POS Congress at the time, threw at us.
Had a run of our most profitable years, ever. Anger, spite and flat-out loathing of Mother Government made us redouble what we were doing RIGHT and lose what we were doing WRONG.
“1969 one of the guys in line asked ‘What are all of these shots for?’”
Yep. Nothing changes. 1979 - fond memories of ‘The Shot Line’ in Army Basic Training.
Those 100 pushups afterwards, just to ‘get the kinks out’ were probably the most fun pushups of my life! (Not!)
The Gas Chamber was a LOT of fun, too! (Also, NOT!) LOL!
Ah, the things we did for a bunch of miserable, ungrateful civilians, fully half of who still hate us and America, still boggles the mind! ;)
Ahh, yes the gas chamber. I didn’t think about it at the time, but I wondered later who had to clean up all of the puke on the floor. Somebody on the drill sergeant’s sh!t list, no doubt.
LOL!
“Add ‘Puke Detail’ to the Duty Roster, First Sergeant!” ~ Every Training CO, Everywhere
I can scarcely believe that you actually posted that.
No offense, but get your head out of your @ss and see what the ruling establishment has done to this country over the last 30+ years.
The United States should be isolationist by nature and interventionist in rare, exceptional cases. That's the only legitimate political stature for a country that is supposed to be built on the idea of limited government. A government that pisses away thousands of lives and trillions of dollars on military campaigns in Islamic sh!t-holes halfway around the world while facilitating an invasion of Third World peasants here at home has no moral claim on any loyalty from its citizens anymore.
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