About one-third of U.S. troops who have been offered a Covid vaccine have declined the inoculation,

[soothsayer]

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Malcolm Nance
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About one-third of U.S. troops who have been offered a Covid vaccine have declined the inoculation, initial Pentagon data show. The choice still allows personnel to deploy.

[onecaliberal]

1. It will be helpful in knowing who they need to boot from the military.

[mr_lebowski]

7. This (nt)

[marble falls]

8. It'd be a good way to narrow the search for RW/seditionists.

[Vivienne235729]

26. that is a darn good point! It's not like the military hasn't made vaccinations mandatory in the past

[Irish_Dem]

2. Non vaccinated troops are a threat to others out in the field.

And can derail a mission.

[hlthe2b]

3. So it is optional? That's nuts, given they made anthrax vaccine mandatory, why not COVID-19?

[soothsayer]

5. Someone said because it's EUA (emergency use auth) at the moment

And that once approved it will be mandatory.

Idk, surprised the heck out of me.

[marble falls]

4. When I was in, there was no optioning out of any shots ever.

[Grins]

16. I refused a flu shot...

...in the early 70’s. A battalion formation for everyone to get the shot. Col. wanted to know why. “Every time I got the shot I got sick.”

Col. said, OK; but if I got the flu and didn’t show up for duty he’d hit me with an Article 15.

I never got the flu. Others who got the shot - did! Go figure.

[marble falls]

19. We got no discussion. We just got in line.

[EndlessWire]

20. That was my experience as well.

We stood in long lines and were told not to bother to refuse, because it was mandatory. I got shot with a gun, and it really hurt -- but not for long.

[marble falls]

21. I was company clerk. The rumor is I may have missed a couple shots because the lines were long ...

... and I kept the "shot" logs.

The Bicillin shot was the mama lama. Week five.

[EndlessWire]

29. Heh heh heh...

I won't tell...

[Greybnk48]

6. What! Unvaccinated soldiers should not be permitted to leave the U.S.

As a matter of fact, since when can a soldier refuse a vaccine? This is bullshit.

[mr_lebowski]

9. I like the whole 'let them identify themselves' angle (nt)

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I received a mandatory swine flu vaccination when I was on active duty

and some people were dying from it. Incidents like that contributed to my decision to GTFO when my enlistment was up.

[marble falls]

22. During Ford's term?

[Cirque du So-What]

30. Yep

ca 1975.

[marble falls]

34. I got off active duty just before that. Ford got hammered for that fiasco right after the Mayaguez.

'75 was a bad year for old Jerry.

[Baked Potato]

11. Can troops decline inoculations now? WTF?

How does that look on a Commander’s Unit Readiness status?

Shot records used to be maintained in the readiness files and before deployment you got your shots as needed. What the Eff is happening?

[Dan]

12. Back in the day the only rights you had, was no rights.

Choice was not an issue.

[louis-t]

13. This is not unusual in the military.

I know several soldiers who spoke about having to get vaccines before being deployed and all of their fellow soldiers who objected and found ways to get around it somehow.

[Baked Potato]

14. The rest of the story:

Only if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully licensed the COVID-19 vaccine would the Defense Department consider making it mandatory, then-Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said at the time.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-troops-refuse-covid-vaccine/

[Siwsan]

15. That wasn't even an option when I served

I got a LOT of vaccinations. A WHOLE lot.

[marble falls]

23. Shots for jungle diseases. And I was a submariner.

[Siwsan]

24. I was heading to Iceland and I had to get a Yellow Fever vaccination

Apparently some of those virulent mosquitoes must have a habit of riding the jet stream all the way to the North Atlantic.

[marble falls]

28. All the way and in fur coats. Sly little devils were't they?

[maxrandb]

31. The Malaria pills used to make me ill, but we had to take them

Same with the Hep vaccine.

Funny military story.

We were required to have an annual HIV Test. I was on a Ship and one of my Shipmates and I went down to medical to get it done. There were two lines. One was kind of long with about 15 people waiting. The other line had two or three.

I saw my LPO in the long line and figured I'd hang with him for a bit. No hurry to get back on the freezing deck anyway. The guy I came down with got in the other line.

My line was actually moving quicker than the other line.

A few minutes later, my friend came by with what looked like an Ace Bandage wrapped around his arm. He said; " that fucker must have jabbed me 7 times before he found a vein".

As he walked away my LPO "Mace" said; "I should have warned him not to get in "Shakies" line".

[marble falls]

32. Hydroxychloroquine or cloroquine?

[maxrandb]

35. I'm not sure

They were little green pills that came in small packets. Maybe hydroxychloroquine.

I know that we had to sign a form that said we couldn't donate blood for like 5 years or something crazy like that.

[marble falls]

36. Same stuff Donnie was quacking for Covid.

[maxrandb]

37. That's right.

I remember that they said it was some drug that was used to treat malaria.

[ismnotwasm]

17. Why? My daughter before she deployed got everything

Including Anthrax and smallpox.

[Yeehah]

18. Say what??

We never had a choice on shots when I was in.

[sarcasmo]

27. Exactly, they would have told/reminded us we had no choice. Army 5/3 rd group here.

[sarcasmo]

25. Self Delete

[coti]

33. Been trying to tell people here this- insufficient pro-vaccine messaging- is a problem.

Not many listening.