(Defense Secretary) Austin to governors: Guard troops must get COVID-19 vaccine

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[TigerClaws]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in letters to seven governors, is reaffirming the need for members of their states’ Army and Air National Guards to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine or lose their Guard status.

In nearly identical letters signed late last week, Austin tells the governors that the virus “takes our service members out of the fight, temporarily or permanently, and jeopardizes our ability to meet mission requirements,” according to copies obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

[Rastus]

Dime store Darth Vader.

[grobdriver]

Governors to Mr. Austin - F**k off.

[ex91B10]

IIRC, he does not.

[Wallace T.]

If the Secretary of Defense decertifies National Guard units in noncompliant states with regard to the mandatory COVID vaccines, hen the units become entirely state funded and controlled. When Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy federalized National Guard units in order to enforce integration against the will of the governors, that was in their role as Commander in Chief of the National Guard. However, they could not federalize the Arkansas, Alabama or Mississippi state police.

I hope the state governors don't blink and turn their respective National Guards become state militaries.

[5th MEB]

Kinda looks like MUGABE there reviewing the troops.