Posted on 05/24/2024 9:51:06 PM PDT by george76
With the military facing a recruitment crisis, Rep. Nancy Mace called the Pentagon’s ‘failure’ to rehire these troops ‘unacceptable.’..
The House Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment in the annual defense policy bill on May 22 that, if cleared through Congress, would force the Pentagon to rehire U.S. troops who were fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine.
The measure was adopted late on May 22 by lawmakers on the panel, who marked up and advanced their version of the annual appropriations bill, authorizing a defense budget of $849.8 billion.
The 2025 bill, titled the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act, will serve as the base text for forthcoming debate as it makes its way through Congress.
On May 22, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who offered the amendment on rehiring veterans separated under the vaccine mandate policy, confirmed its adoption. During the debate, she said the measure would direct the Pentagon to develop a strategy to recruit from among the thousands of servicemembers who “were made veterans overnight” under the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“This amendment seeks to address the loss of skilled, experienced personnel who were willing and able to serve their country and overcome the resistance of the Department in recruiting from this population,” Ms. Mace said ahead of a panel vote.
“The Department has so far failed to recruit a significant number of servicemembers separated under the COVID mandate. This is unacceptable.”
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Congress ended the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in 2022 and last year directed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to create a path back to service for those who were separated for refusing the vaccine.
On April 30, Mr. Austin told the panel that he didn’t know of any efforts to recruit servicemembers who had been previously let go under the mandates. Ms. Mace said on May 22 that this was “disappointing.”
The measure faces an uncertain future later this year when the committee meets with the Democrat-led Senate Armed Services Committee to reconcile differences in the National Defense Authorization Act before full passage in Congress.
According to the Pentagon, during fiscal year 2023, the military services collectively missed recruiting goals by about 41,000 recruits. This was attributed to a “smaller eligible population.”
Other reasons stated included the attractiveness of jobs in the private sector, younger generations having “low trust” in the military and following other career paths, and younger people having fewer families who served, decreasing their wish to follow suit.
Committee Advances Draft Defense Spending Bill..
House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said the 2025 defense spending bill considers the quality of life for servicemembers, boosting compensation money, improving housing, expanding health care and child care access, and other issues that directly affect troops and their families. This is in addition to strengthening the military to face challenges posed by China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea, according to Mr. Rogers.
“Strengthening our military and investing in our defense is how we send our adversaries a message that we will not be intimidated,” he added.
The lawmakers authorized a defense budget of $849.8 billion in line with the debt ceiling agreement made earlier this year.
Why would they come back?
Full back pay. A bonus. Award of normal promotions. Discharge of officers who refused to honor religious objections.
Good luck with that.
The government bared it’s fangs at them. They aren’t coming back.
Good point.
Odds are all those service personnel now have jobs outside the military, so why would they give up the stability of civilian employment for the uncertainty of some future charge for not taking another vaccine?
That’s right. Why come back to a WOKE army and be regarded as a racist or white supremist. They all are being subjected to Critical Race Theory every day.
Besides, our military is now used to protect and project the interests of the Globalists, not to defend the United States.
So the government can tell them that they will have to get the Avian flu shots, or lose their jobs...again. 🤪
Excellent, about time.
They should also be given some financial reparations. Only fair.
Yeah. If they were willing to give up a normal citizen's life and return to the military discipline, they ought to be promoted from their discharged MOS, given a medal recognizing their hiatus of service, have those months added to their time in rank and in service, and bonus, all of theseexcept only if there is a real exceptional justifiable reason noty to give them pay and seniority. And reimbursement for subsistence of themselves and their families because of that irrational and unexpected discharge.
At a hearing not long ago, with the Air Force, he was asked how many came back. He said they contacted over 1000 and 2 came back. I believe it was the Air Force, I’m not positive on that.
Exactly what I thought, had you not posted that I would have said something similar. Well said!
Exactly
They’ll get the same treatment again
I wouldn’t let any kid join today’s military and anyone who got kicked out over covid should be given a substantial sum for the militaries stupidity. I can’t see any of them going back in. Any officer in the chain of command that actively had anything to do with kicking folks out should be fired.
And it wasn’t Vladimir Putin who did this to them, BTW. :-0
“Why would they come back?”
Maybe to be told that they suck, their kids suck, whites suck, America sucks, and then be sent off to war by the Neocons to fight Russia and China to ‘Protect American Values’?
Come to think of it, perhaps they’ll stick with their day jobs.
There was an article here (FR) about that, I think. Yeah, it was a but FU to the gubment.
Why would men who have experienced the Modern Army want to go back to it? If they got bad discharges because of the vaxx they can probably get them upgraded to Honorable without having to jump back into the Wokeswamp.
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