Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has, under pressure from Congress, finally rescinded his Aug. 24, 2021 memorandum mandating that members of the Armed Forces under Department of Defense authority be vaccinated against COVID-19. He also rescinded the memorandum of Nov. 30, 2021, which attempted to force the vaccination of National Guard and Reserve personnel. That matter is in litigation as Republican governors have pushed back on Austin’s authority over National Guard and Reserves.
Austin is acting due to the requirement established by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, signed by President Joe Biden on Dec. 23.
“The health and readiness of the Force are crucial to the Department’s ability to defend our nation. Secretary Austin continues to encourage all Service members, civilian employees, and contractor personnel to get vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 to ensure Total Force readiness,” his press release said.
The memo gives commanders discretion about whether to deploy military personnel who are not vaccinated for Covid.
Mandates for other vaccines are unchanged, he said, as is “the ability of commanders to consider, as appropriate, the individual immunization status of personnel in making deployment, assignment, and other operational decisions, including when vaccination is required for travel to, or entry into, a foreign nation.”
Already, the military has lost more than 8,400 men and women who refused the Covid vaccination since Austin gave the order in August of 2021 to require all under his command to take the experimental vaccine. Many were separated for refusing to obey his order.
Those who were released have reportedly received honorable discharges or general discharges under honorable conditions.
Austin wrote that those who were discharged can petition their military service branch to ask for a change in the “characterization of their discharge” in their records, but he didn’t indicate what changes would be made.
Austin is the 28th secretary of Defense and serves on the National Security Council.
The full rescission memorandum can be found here.
Best thing I’ve seen from Congress in years. Our US military is being lead by partisan fools.
About damn time. Austin has zero business being Sec Def.
But most of the “human rainbow” Biden used for his administration have no business driving a cab, much less the Ship of State. When diversity trumps excellence, you get what you get.
Austin, in the attached photos, looks like a cross between Idi Amin Dada and Darth Vader.
Come to think of it, he resembles that hypothetical cross between those two characters in more ways than just in his appearance.
I thought the same thing. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t reality. I’m going to save the picture for my background to remind me of the ridiculousness.
Pfffffftttttt.
It’ll be an all transgender and immigrant green card factory force by 2030 and complete the transformation into a jobs program for the despicable.
That has got to be the most moronic imbecilic outfit the military has ever seen. Is them/they wearing the obligatory red heels too? #walkamileinhershoes
They have been intentionally purging the military of anyone who would be willing to disobey evil/unconstitutional orders such as turning on their own citizens. Fascist/Communist can’t control a nation if the military isn’t willing to shoot it’s own citizens.
“The health and readiness of the Force are crucial to the Department’s ability to defend our nation.”
The ability to defend our nation is being degraded by the woke actions of the current administration. Many men and women from military families are deciding not to serve, leaving wokesters to take their place.
Any normal person would not get close to the military after this boondoggle. Don’t trust the government people they lie and cheat. I use to be pro military but now it has turned into a day care program.
Is that his “Everyone Is A Winner” medal?
Everything Lloyd Austin has done has been a complete joke. He needs to take his overweight woke self and disappear.
When God judges a nation, he gives them wicked rulers. John Calvin
There are still valiant soldiers who will protect our US Constitution and our way of life and liberty. They will not cave as the others will find out.
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