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Military can get honorable discharge for refusing the jab under pending NDAA


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2021 Sep 14, 3:21pm   421 views  7 comments

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https://clarksvillenow.com/local/discharge-status-of-soldiers-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-protected-under-rep-green-amendment-to-ndaa/


CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – In response to the new requirement that all U.S. soldiers get the COVID-19 vaccine, the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday night approved a measure that would prohibit any discharge but honorable for servicemembers who refuse.

The amendment to the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act was proposed by Rep. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, an Army veteran and physician who serves on the committee.

“As a physician, I’ve weighed the pros and cons of the COVID-19 vaccine and have chosen to get the shot. As a former Army officer, I also understand the need to vaccinate servicemembers on deployment against a highly infectious virus,” Green said in prepared comments.

“For years, the military has possessed the authority to compel servicemembers to be vaccinated. However, those vaccines underwent years of research with ample longitudinal safety data. In the case of the coronavirus vaccine, that longitudinal data is not yet possible. Therefore, I believe servicemembers who make the personal medical decision to refuse the vaccine, and are subsequently separated from the service for their refusal, should not receive anything other than an honorable discharge for refusing to take the vaccine.”

Green thanked committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Washington, and Ranking Member Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, for working with him to get “broad bipartisan support” for the measure.

“No American who raises their hand to serve our nation should be punished for making a highly personal medical decision,” Green said.

The NDAA must still be approved by Congress.


Note that the article has a huge error though: it says that the jab was FDA approved when it most definitely was not. Only a non-existing jab was approved:

https://patrick.net/post/1340804/2021-08-23-updated-fda-did-not-approve-the-existing

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1   Patrick   2021 Sep 23, 1:33pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/biden-administration-strongly-opposes-honorable-discharge-for-troops-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccine_4011759.html


Biden Administration ‘Strongly Opposes’ Honorable Discharge for Troops Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
BY ZACHARY STIEBER September 22, 2021

President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday came out against efforts to prevent dishonorable discharges for U.S. troops who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
2   stereotomy   2021 Sep 23, 2:13pm  

Patrick says
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/biden-administration-strongly-opposes-honorable-discharge-for-troops-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccine_4011759.html


Biden Administration ‘Strongly Opposes’ Honorable Discharge for Troops Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
BY ZACHARY STIEBER September 22, 2021

President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday came out against efforts to prevent dishonorable discharges for U.S. troops who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.


That Goddamn senile bastard. Hunter should be force vaccinated every month until the covid "emergency" is over.
3   AmericanKulak   2021 Sep 23, 2:18pm  

Another thing states can do RIGHT NOW is announce that any soldier discharged for not getting the vax will be treated like any other veteran (equivalent "points") for state job applications, and forbid businesses from treating them any differently than honorably/generally discharged vets.
4   Patrick   2021 Oct 13, 6:16pm  

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-thousands-of-U-S-troops-have-not-yet-16522715.php

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near, with lopsided rates across the individual services and a spike in deaths among military reservists illustrating how political division over the shots has seeped into a nonpartisan force with unambiguous orders.

Overall, the military's vaccination rate has climbed since August, when Defense Department leaders, acting on a directive from President Joe Biden, informed the nation's 2.1 million troops that immunization would become mandatory, exemptions would be rare and those who refuse would be punished. Yet troops' response has been scattershot, according to data assessed by The Washington Post.
5   Misc   2021 Oct 14, 4:35am  

After that abortion of a pullout from Afghanistan, I wonder how many service members simply want out.
6   Patrick   2021 Oct 16, 1:26pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/the-archbishop-for-the-military-says-that-catholic-troops-can-refuse-the-covid-19-vaccine


Archbishop for the U.S. military affirms Catholic troops can rightly refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based on personal conviction

John Knox

Oct 15th, 2021 11:16 am
Score one for Catholics in the U.S. Military, thanks to Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio:

Catholic U.S. troops should be allowed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based solely on conscientious objection and regardless of whether abortion-related tissue was used in its creation or testing, the archbishop for the military declared in a new statement supporting service members who are seeking religious exemptions.

"No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience," said Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio, in a statement released Tuesday.

Broglio previously has supported President Joe Biden's mandatory vaccination order for U.S. troops, citing the church's guidance that permits Catholics to receive even vaccines derived from fetal tissue, when no other vaccine option is available. In his new statement, the archbishop said that while he still encourages followers and troops to get vaccinated, some troops have questioned if the church's permission to get vaccinated outweighed their own conscious objections to it.

"It does not," Broglio wrote.


It's something, but Broglio is weak for not issuing this up front.
7   Patrick   2021 Nov 1, 1:04pm  

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2021/10/28/air-force-is-first-to-face-troops-rejection-of-vaccine-mandate-as-thousands-avoid-shots/


Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate and officials say it is too late for them to do so by Tuesday’s deadline, posing a first major test for military leaders whose August directive has been met with defiance among a segment of the force.

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