Meanwhile, in China, vax mandates are ruled illegal because people don’t want them.
Roughly 40,000 National Guardsmen and 22,000 Reservists will be barred from service for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the US Army announced Friday.
The decision effectively cuts off pay and benefits to the combined 62,000 service members and prohibits them from participating in training.
“Soldiers who refuse the vaccination order without an approved or pending exemption request are subject to adverse administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and official reprimands,” an Army spokesperson said in a statement to Military.com.
The Guardsmen and Reservists had until last Thursday to receive the vaccine. The deadline was the latest of all the armed services, which required members to get vaccinated last year, according to the outlet.
If the soldiers continue to refuse the vaccination requirement without a valid medical or religious exemption, they could face further action including “separation” or mandatory discharge.
Part-time service members who have pending exemption cases can continue to participate in training exercises and collect pay and benefits. However, the Army has approved very few medical exemptions and religious exemptions to date, Military.com reported.
Just six out of 53 Guardsmen who requested a medical exemption were approved by the Army and none of the 3,000 requests for religious exemptions made by Guardsmen and Reservists have been granted, according to the outlet.
…
About 13 percent of National Guardsmen and 12 percent of Reservists were unvaccinated the day after the deadline passed.
What the hell kind of person would take this fake vaccine to keep their job? I guess the same kind of person who joins the National Guard after the National Guard was used as a de facto draft to fight the stupid Iraq War.
It’s obvious that there would have been a higher uptake of the vaccine if the Biden people wouldn’t have went insane and tried to force everyone, making it look like some kind of a conspiracy.
It was a conspiracy, but they could have made it a lot less obvious without too much effort.
And this is exactly by design to weaken a country. Absolute BS. These families are going to be devastated over a controversial unproven vaccine. Let November be a date on these families calendars. This has to stop.
— Mark (@moneytreenews) July 9, 2022
So much for body autonomy
— Kristen Nelson (@kjnelsonnelson) July 9, 2022
This is sad over something it doesn’t work.
— Joseph Samsell (@SamsellJoseph) July 9, 2022
I don’t blame those refusing, there were/are so many lies surrounding it. It’s disgustingly shameful they’ll lose pay/benefits. I’m lucky enough that I could forego it without any repercussions.
— DAR (@SorrowfulMuse) July 9, 2022
yeah land of the free…..what a joke
— Eric Hughes (@BaneTechinc) July 9, 2022
Purging the non compliant
— Diane Lewis (@peachcactustats) July 9, 2022