Only 43 of the more than 8,000 US service members who were discharged from the military for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have sought to rejoin eight months after the vaccine mandate was officially repealed, according to data provided by the military branches.
Many Republicans argued that the vaccine mandate hurt military recruiting and retention efforts, which was part of the rationale for forcing the Defense Department to cancel the vaccine requirement.<
The military mandated the vaccine between for only 15 months from August 2021 through January 2023, when it was rescinded by law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. It marked perhaps the first time in US military history that a vaccine requirement was reversed.
But since the repeal, only 19 soldiers have rejoined the Army, while 12 have returned to the Marines, according to service spokespeople.
The numbers are even smaller for the Air Force and Navy, where only one and two have rejoined, respectively, the services said. . . .Read more on CNN — but it’s full of typical narrative pro-vax nonsense that belittles and dismisses the service members who chose not to get the vax and the politicians fighting for them. What do you expect, it’s CNN.
The real fact that only 43 have chosen to return to the military says a lot about low morale, lack of trust, and decline of leadership, etc. A lot of good people are missing from the military because of the mandate.
Report: Only 43 Out of 8K Troops Discharged over Biden’s Military Vaccine Mandate Have Sought to Rejoin (Breitbart News, 5 OCT 23)
. . . .Retired Air Force Master Sergeant Nick Kupper, who recently retired after successfully fighting his discharge, told Breitbart News that troops are not seeking to rejoin because they feel betrayed.
“I think a service member going back to the military after being kicked out over the COVID mandate is like a woman going back to her abusive husband. He promises that this time will be different and that he won’t hit her anymore, but in reality he’ll likely hit her so hard that he kills her this time,” he said.
Recently retired Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Samuel Shoemate, who administers a military whistleblowing website, agreed that troops are wary of rejoining the same military they were just forced out of.
“I’ve personally spoken to thousands of service members and their family members over the last two years, and the consensus has roundly been the same among all of them; they will not rejoin a military under current leadership which so readily broke the law and denied them their constitutional rights,” he said in a statement.
He and other veterans argue that the version of the vaccine that was distributed to the military when the mandate began was not FDA-approved and that troops were illegally required to take a version that was under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The Biden administration argues that the version of the vaccine that was distributed to troops was interchangeable with the FDA-approved version. . . .
. . . “Service members and their families felt betrayed by DOD leadership, and they were. The hardships many of them experienced as a result of refusing the vaccine were so egregious that the thought of ever returning was simply never an option,” Shoemate said. . . . . (read more)
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