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Some HIV-positive people cleared to join military while suit against DOD limits proceeds
Stars and Stripes ^ | June 4, 2026 | Phillip Walter Wellman

Posted on 06/23/2026 3:31:37 PM PDT by fwdude

People who are HIV positive but are otherwise qualified to join the military can once again do so while a legal challenge to the Pentagon’s restrictions on military service moves forward, according to a federal appeals court order issued this week.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified Tuesday that a lower-court order blocking enforcement of the restrictions has been back in effect since May 18, when the full court agreed to rehear the case.

The order applies to applicants who are HIV-positive but asymptomatic and have undetectable viral loads through medication.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


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More leftist insanity. These people require constant medical monitoring for a DISEASE, for Pete's sake!!!

The DOD should ingore this order.

1 posted on 06/23/2026 3:31:37 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

No medically dependent people are admissible in the military except apparently people with HIV and transsexuals.

Bizarro.


2 posted on 06/23/2026 3:40:44 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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Anyone who is on life dependent medication is non deployable. You can’t guarantee the supply chain of such medications and you can’t guarantee access to a doctor either. This is why anyone with such conditions cannot pass medical eligibility for enlistment. HIV should not have special rules.


3 posted on 06/23/2026 3:47:59 PM PDT by rottndog (250 years...will we make it to 300?)
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To: fwdude

Do not watch many commercials these days, but one really floored me.

The title of the commercial could have been Undetectable.

The medicine is Truvada Antiretroviral Therapy (ART).

With enough of the medicine, “some” people’s tests will result in HIV being “undetectable.” It does not say “gone” “cured” just.... we cannot detect it.

At the end of the commercial they made it obvious that, with the undetectable result..... “You can start dating again!”


4 posted on 06/23/2026 3:52:22 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: fwdude

Are the guys that were kicked out for not taking the Covid shot able to join?


5 posted on 06/23/2026 3:54:49 PM PDT by stanne
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To: fwdude

Try to join with requiring ADHD meds see how well that goes for you. The left is nuts.


6 posted on 06/23/2026 3:56:36 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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