Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 11/25/2023
U.S. Air Force and Army Send Out Letters Pleading for Those Discharged for Refusing Covid Shot to Return
The vast majority of these letters will probably be ignored, and the struggle to recruit men and women willing to serve a woke bureaucracy with virtue signalling, social justice, eco-activist priorities will continue.The mountain of covid policy regrets continues to grow.
Legal Insurrection chronicled the shameful discharge of military service members who refused to take the covid vaccine, despite ample evidence at the time the shot did not prevent the disease or stop the transmission of the novel coronavirus. Biden decided to virtue-signal with a vaccine mandate, and the Secretary of Defense was happy to oblige:
• Dec. 2021:Over 100 Marines Discharged for Refusing COVID Vaccine
• Dec. 2021: Marines Say Dismissal Over COVID Vaccine Refusal Is ‘Political Purge’
• Dec. 2021:Air Force Discharges 27 Service Members for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
• Feb. 2022: U.S. Army Beginning to Discharge Soldiers Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
• May 2022:Four U.S. Air Force Academy Cadets May Not Graduate, Be Commissioned After Refusing COVID Vaccine
• July 2022:U.S. Army Boots over 60,000 National Guard and Reservists Who Remain Unvaccinated from Covid
All together, over 8,000 military service members were booted for not getting the covid vaccination. The mandate was rescinded by the Department of Defense in January of this year. Guess how many men and women returned to duty after their vaccine discharge.
Only 43 of the more than 8,000 US service members who were discharged from the military for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have sought to rejoin eight months after the vaccine mandate was officially repealed, according to data provided by the military branches.
Since the repeal, only 19 soldiers have rejoined the Army, while 12 have returned to the Marines, according to service spokespeople. The numbers are even smaller for the Air Force and Navy, where only one and two have rejoined, respectively, the services said.
None of the military service branches are hitting their recruitment goals, which inspired a policy change to increase the recruitment ages.
Additionally, the Army recently sent out a letter pleading with discharged personnel to return.
Nearly a year after Congress forced the Pentagon to rescind its mandate requiring all troops to receive the coronavirus vaccine, 19 soldiers have rejoined the Army after they were discharged for refusing the shot, The Post has exclusively learned.
The news comes after the service sent a letter earlier this month inviting former soldiers who declined the jab to apply to rejoin as the military faces recruitment challenges.
Last week, the service notified vaccine-related discharged soldiers they could contact their local recruitment office for information on reapplying to the Army.
“As part of the overall COVID mandate rescission process mandated by Congress, the Army this month mailed the letters to approximately 1,900 individuals who had previously been separated,” Army spokesman Bryce Dubee told The Post.
The Air Force has also sent out its own plea to the covid-discharged.
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https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/u-s-air-force-and-army-send-out-letters-pleading-for-those-discharged-for-refusing-covid-shot-to-return/
