Posted on 11/25/2021 9:18:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Marine Corps faces a defining moment leading up to its Monday deadline for all Marines to have received a coronavirus vaccine, with reports of a significant number who have refused the shot clashing with the service’s meticulously crafted image as the military’s most disciplined fighting force – and its most potent.
Roughly 10,000 of its 186,000-strong active duty force are positioned to miss the deadline the Department of the Navy set for all Marines and sailors to become fully vaccinated, according to the latest data, representing the highest proportion of any of the military services potentially to violate direct orders from the chain of command.
Even those who may have waited until the final weeks to begin the vaccination process will ultimately miss the deadline, which requires Marines to have completed the two-week vaccination process. The 38,000 Marine Corps reservists face a later deadline of Dec. 28.
Marine Corps headquarters has so far declined to say how many have applied for or been granted exemptions – a bureaucratic process to accommodate religious, medical or administrative concerns that has taken on outsized relevance in the age of coronavirus vaccine skepticism – or how it will punish those who outright refuse to receive the shot. A spokesman says it continues to study the scope of the issue.
But those with deep experience in the corps and its place in the wider military say it has already suffered from the initial refusals, with the potential for greater damage after next week.
“For decades the Marine Corps has been about the expeditionary force and readiness. ‘First to Fight,’ ‘Send the Marines’ –
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Ping.
The Marine Corps I knew and served in no longer exists. Semper Fi.
Up to a 5% cut in Marine Corps manpower due to this mandate. And with Austin in charge that is a lot of folks tossed out with serious blemishes on their records and little or no bennies for their service. The administration does not care how this purge will affect recruiting in the future.
One thing the Pentagon doesn’t grasp here....each guy they go and toss out on this deal....is a ‘mouthpiece’ to hinder future recruitment. One single guy might talk ten potential recruits out of enlisting.
So, what they are saying is that there is a high correlation between warfighting temperament and disinclination to get a vaccine like this one.
I’m not one of them but I’ll do everything I possibly can to discourage any young man from entering any military service for the foreseeable future.
Not sorry.
Stand strong against these death injection mandates Marines.
Hold the line men! Hold the line!
You expect the enemy to attack, but when your own country screws you over it is just unfathomable. Enlistment after Vietnam really waned. The Vietnam vets got screwed, and it seems as though the liberal, woke, moronic left is attacking our beloved troops once again.
CW2 how soon? Sides are already forming.
F Biden, F most of the DoD, F almost all of the DoJ.
Trump in 2024 will help put things back to, borrowing from Rush, the way things ought to be.
This article mentions that the Marine Corps is the youngest of the services. The Marine Corps was founded in 1775 the same year as the Army and Navy. The first American flag to fly over hostile territory was in Tripoli in 1805. The Marines predate the Air Force by about 135 years. The Space Force is now the youngest of the services.
Semper Fi
I am not so sure the order to take an untested experimental vaccine is in fact a law full order.
By youngest I bet they mean average age
"The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting both at sea and on shore." - Wikipedia
"As the oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence,[14] the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed 14 June 1775 to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States was established as a country." - Wikipedia
"In 1972, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, authorized the Navy to celebrate its birthday on 13 October to honor the establishment of the Continental Navy in 1775." - Wikipedia
Looks like the Marine Corps is the youngest branch of the military by date of inception, not by (average) age of its members.
Thanks, Wikipedia!
Regards,
Regards,
“One single guy might talk ten potential recruits out of enlisting.”
Times 10,000 is 100,000; that’s a lot of people.
Most booted Marines and other servicemembers will serve as battle-tested, pro-2A stalwarts in society. As they will urge other young people NOT to enlist, they will also service as spokesmen and women against the filthy dems who pushed them out.
*serve as spokesmen…
(GD autocorrect)
Roughly 10,000?
How roughly...?
Like a lot more?
Betcha.
To reporters and Brandonites, “disciplined” means “compliant”.
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