Army To Begin Involuntary Separations for 3,300 Soldiers Who Refused COVID Vaccine

[Nevilledog]

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/02/army-begin-involuntary-separations-3300-soldiers-who-refused-covid-vaccine/361503/

As service leaders promised last year, the Army has begun to eject soldiers who have refused a COVID-19 vaccine and have not received an official exemption. As of Wednesday, 3,350 of the Army’s active-duty soldiers and reserve soldiers on active orders are due to be involuntarily separated. Less than 1 percent of the active force is affected, service officials said.

The directive from Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, released Wednesday morning, directs commanders to “initiate involuntary administrative separation proceedings against any soldier who has refused the COVID-19 vaccination order and does not have an approved or pending exemption request” including active-duty soldiers, reserve soldiers serving on Title 10 active-duty orders, and cadets.

The full directive calls for commanders to process the separations, from initiation to discharge, “as expeditiously as possible.”

“Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight, and win our nation’s wars,” Wormuth said in an emailed statement. “Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness.”

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Good riddance, but militias will target them.

[wryter2000]

1. Good

You know they're MAGAtst who don't belong in the military.

[TheRealNorth]

6. +1

If they are willing to put their own lives at risk for Glorious Leader, I am pretty certain they would not have a problem with shooting protestors if the Mango Mussolini ordered them to.

[Hekate]

2. Army to begin separation of 1% of soldiers who refused an order

Good. Only 1%.

Though you are right: they will continue to be a risk as disgruntled civilians.

[RKP5637]

3. This makes excellent sense. n/t

[jmowreader]

4. There are 486,000 soldiers on active duty

Remember how the hard right said massive numbers of troops would choose not to serve over the vaccination? This is about seven-tenths of a percent of all the troops in the Army.

[Aristus]

5. Health issues aside, how can the Army rely on soldiers who are on record

for deliberately disobeying orders?

[Midnight Writer]

7. Exactly.

[alittlelark]

8. 3300 new potential oath keepers etc

I hope they r tracked.

[lagomorph777]

9. Probably already Proud Boys