Posted on 11/17/2023 6:19:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Oh, how much the times have changed!
The United States Army is now begging COVID unvaccinated soldiers, who underwent involuntary discharge for their refusal to take the vaccine, to return to service and also permits them to correct their military records!
Just two years ago, in a shameful campaign, the Pentagon was gleefully discharging soldiers who refused to take Covid vaccines:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/12/14/air-force-…
We were assured that these discharges would “not affect military readiness.”
“I can tell you there are no operational impacts across the force for readiness,” Marine Corps Lt. Gen. David Ottignon told lawmakers. “There’s no one community that has signaled an instance where a [leader], an NCO or another enlisted Marine is not present because of that.”
The Marine Corps has, by far, kicked out the most service members: 1,968 total, 20% of whom received an honorable discharge. That amounts to just under 1% of the total force, which stands at about 215,000.
However, the readiness suffered: thousands of service members were dismissed, and potential recruits declined to enlist in the Armed Services, because, guess what, young healthy men loath COVID vaccines.
More than 17,000 service members balked at taking the shots, citing safety fears linked to the vaccine’s speedy development and spurred by misinformation about messenger ribonucleic acid technology, as well as concern over fetal cell lines used in formulation and testing. The more the controversy raged in the news, the more troops asked to skip the shots, Military Times reporting found.
The COVID vaccine mandate removed three times as many servicemembers (8,339, see above) compared to the 2,402 soldiers tragically killed in Afghanistan. The involuntarily terminated soldiers were, of course, the best, the brightest, the healthiest, and most conscientious, who cared the most about their health.
Thousands were given career-destroying reprimands:
Lt. Col. Terry Kelley, a spokesman for the Army, said that 2,767 soldiers have received “general officer written reprimands” — killing their opportunities for promotions or transfers within the military — and that two battalion commanders as well as four other officers have been relieved of their duties but remain enlisted in the military.
The leadership, sadly, stayed silent. (pictured here is Lloyd Austin)
As a result, the military is missing its recruitment goals by 25%:
COVID vaccinations and other reasons “caused [the army’s] end strength to fall from an original level of 485,000 in late 2021 to around 452,000 active duty soldiers today”.
Now, COVID vaccinations are all but forgotten, but the bitterness, nastiness, and senselessness of the mandates should be remembered. Remember how those dismissals were cheered by the media, such as the LA Times:
I am sorry about the destroyed careers of the best servicemembers. They kept their health — they will get military discharge papers corrected — but they will always remember the unfairness, the trauma, and the helplessness they felt as their commanders dismissed them for not taking experimental and non-working COVID vaccines.
Life is not fair; the soldiers have not been compensated, but they at least remained healthy and true to their principles.
Please appreciate how hard it was for those brave souls to stick to their principles: their entire lives and careers were being wrecked by the illegal COVID orders. These are courageous people - and the military needs stoic and strong heroes, of which 8,331 were dismissed due to insane orders of the Biden administration.
Was that an intentional campaign to rid the military of critical thinkers? Let us know what you think!
they get all their backpay and credit time in grade, right???
“Dear white American men. We’re sorry for calling you a bunch of disease-spreading, racist MAGA retards. It’s time for some real wars in the Middle East and it turns out all the bearded trannies and lesbian Shaniquas we’ve been enlisting only joined for the Tricare. Please come back! Regards, Uncle Sam.”
I won't even say what the first words were that came to mind when I read the article's title.......
Nope. Institutions must maintain integrity and trust. This even makes the insult worse. You can’t trust any of our public institutions at this point.
Son’s friend was called back recently, was forced to get the shot, and now is on disability with blood clots throughout his body.
NEVER FORGET WHAT WAS DONE TO OUR MEN & WOMEN IN UNIFORM.
My advice is, don’t don’t don’t.
What about the hundreds of MAGA supporters who were forced out????
Correct their records?
How about back pay, special consideration for higher rank, and priority/backdating of promotion dates. For a start.
Maybe even of-record recognition for their moral courage in bucking an unjust system?
Dear Army; GFY
No!
Go to hell, Obama-ass-kissing dumbass Brass!!!
Or, yeah. Maybe that. Lol
We need to get the armed forces into shape because the election is approaching and it’s time to wag the dog.
This looks like a group of special ed high school students playing dress up ...
Let the trannies fight for them.
Just tell them they can shove and then live normal lives.
I was thinking them...
Wow - you really collected a lot of articles - Bravo Zulu
So true. Meritocracy is dead. What was a uniform has become a costume.
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