U.S. Military Begins Discharging 30,000 Servicemen for Refusing the Jab

In August, the U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a series of vaccine mandates covering all branches of the military, with thousands of personnel now facing the sack following the expiration of numerous inoculation deadlines. In total, the U.S. military has begun discharging the 30,000 active and unvaccinated servicemen within its ranks, with the Air Force having fired 27 unjabbed pilots since Monday. The Mail has the story.

On Thursday, the Marine Corps said that 95% of its active-duty force of 182,500 Marines had received at least one Covid vaccine shot, the lowest percentage among the military services, moving up one point from 94% last month. 

It is unclear why the first 103 Marines are being discharged now, as according to the Corps numbers, there are roughly 9,000 more remaining who have not been vaccinated still holding their rank. 

However, the Marine Corps said it has approved 1,007 medical and administrative exemptions and is still processing 2,863 of the 3,144 requests made for a religious exemption as of Friday.

While the percentage of vaccinated active duty personnel in each service is at 95% or higher, the number of unvaccinated personnel is close to 30,000.

Navy officials have begun terminating the 5,731 active-duty sailors, or two percent of its active branch, who remain unvaccinated two weeks after the established deadline, leaders of the military branch confirmed on Thursday. 

Meanwhile, the Army announced it is prepared to axe 3,800 unvaccinated soldiers beginning in January and after the Air Force has already discharged 27 service members who refused the vaccine order. 

The Navy has the highest vaccination rate of all military branches with 336,000 sailors, or 99%, vaccinated from Covid. 

“If a sailor gets their shot, we will honour that and make every effort to retain them,” Rear Admiral James Waters, the Navy’s Director of Military Personnel Plans and Policy said. 

“On the other hand, those who continue to refuse the vaccine will be required to leave the Navy.”

Navy officials had previously announced that unvaccinated officers and enlisted sailors eligible to retire or leave the service before June 1st 2022, will be allowed to do so with an honourable discharge.  

Those who an ineligible for retirement or leave by that date will still receive an honourable discharge but “will be processed for separation on the basis of misconduct for refusing the lawful order to be vaccinated,” Waters explained. 

However, those with more than six years of service “will be processed with the least favourable characterization of service, being general, under honourable conditions, barring other misconduct,” he said.  

Army officials said on Thursday that more than 3,800 soldiers, nearly 2% of the military branch’s active duty force, had flatly refused to get at least one dose of the mandatory Covid vaccine as of this week’s deadline and could be fired as early as next month. 

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FrankFisher
4 years ago

Assuming the USA, or any of us, are still around a year from now, their national debt is going to be pummelled by all these wrongful dismissal suits…

Utterly insane.

bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Deliberately so Frank

This Omichronic scariant is the “woke” version of Covid1984: obnoxious, overtly vocal and constantly attention seeking, but doesn’t actually do anything.

https://twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1471426576625672196?s=20

Let’s hope the London Freedom demo today actually builds awakening traction amongst the gawping normie onlookers, and this is worth sharing, for those seeking legal address for vaxx damages and mandatory resistance

https://pjhlaw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/letterMHRA.pdf

Let’s hope Neil Oliver via GB News delivers another broadside assault on the BUILD BACK BETTER bollox tonight – we need an uplift in counterpoint narratives to avoid the ever looming draconian national lockdown threatned for early January.

Finally some Xmas cheer

https://twitter.com/olliedewis/status/1471922414711975936?s=20

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Norman
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

I am a very generous man. Please can I have 20 jabs.
But I have a question, which science do I follow?

VAX FREE IanC
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

 “avoid the ever looming draconian national lockdown threatened for early January.”

I will not be taking any notice whatsoever of any lockdown diktats. Simple! I hope no one else does either.

Dobba
4 years ago
Reply to  VAX FREE IanC

Ditto – and probably like most on here – never have for any of the other lockdowns. Why change a good thing, huh? 😁

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

The pdf has some excellent information in it. There is no doubt the MHRA have been negligent. It will not at all surprise you that Gates funds the MHRA:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_much_mhra_received_from_bill

JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

It’ll be confetti $s though.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

More recruits for the Rebel Alliance, then. Valuable trained warriors, and leaders, for the inevitable civil war.

Gregoryno6
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Which I hope is not inevitable, though Foggy Groper and his evil clown circus continue to push obliviously toward that.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

We might be in the late 1850s pre-American Civil War (as an analogy), with confederate states already popping up, anti-slavery to health fascism now the moral high ground (not anti-slavery as per Union), and many veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars ready to mobilise (similar to Mexican war veterans in pre-civil war America). Interesting times.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Could be about state rights again too…

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Indeed. But this time the Confederacy would have the moral high ground as well as the more stylish uniforms. Plus TRUMP.

Annie
4 years ago

Good time to invade. Half the military jabberoids will be self-isolating.

VAX FREE IanC
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Isn’t that the plan?

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

And you thought Afghanistan was bad!

They might have their work cut out to rig the next election…

SteveHoffmanUK
SteveHoffmanUK
4 years ago

How times have changed! As a draft-induced US Army recruit, I remember my first day of basic training (Jan 1959) at Ft Dix NJ, lined up in my skivvies with a few hundred others, medics on both sides armed with needles jabbing everything available into our arms. Funny thing – they didn’t ask us if we wanted them!

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveHoffmanUK

The military have been force vaccinating forever, haven’t they? I’ve heard they had some wonderful stuff during the Gulf War.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Got a relative who was in the military for years. Family found his medical records, every posting he got injected with something, must have had DTaP a dozen times (why, just why?) , plus the gulf series back in the 90s. They just took it, never questioned it. Now in poor health, personality change, memory not great. Back in the 70s, the RAF decreed that every airman should have his wisdom teeth out. WTF? It’s medical abuse, plain and simple.

SteveHoffmanUK
SteveHoffmanUK
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Yes they have. Until recently the attitude has been “Don’t ask questions, shut up and do as you’re told. You’re not paid to think, soldier.” Fortunately I missed out on Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq and other disasters.

JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  SteveHoffmanUK

I remember vividly that we were carried to an army hospital doing a medical exam.
No explanations were given about what they were planning to do.
I was one of the few who tried to object to the vaccination when it came up (the doctor was a real jerk).
Not because I was an anti-vaxxer, but because I just had some before I had to do the national service.
The fact that they didn’t accept that and them or even bother shows that this was again just about obedience and humiliation, not about health (to the contrary again).
On the positive side, the booklet was quite sturdy. I used it for all other ensuing vaccinations and still have and use it today (pre Covid).

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

… which experience provides material to reinforce suspicion of novel vaccines.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

Ah the socialist MIC, I’ve often wondered what citizens of the empire would do if they didn’t have taxpayers funding the massive military/police employment sector, Probably all end up in the profitable prison system.

The land of the free, imprisoned, militarized, policed & compulsory vaccinated

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
4 years ago

Insanity. Those serving currently will doubtless remember the previous military medical destruction of 1000s of servicemen and women with the Gulf War vaccines.

There is an obsession in the military with building “an invincible warrior” against the entire spectrum of threats. Unfortunately, the belief that you can inject people with every sort of potion to either improve performance or protect against biohazards is naive in the extreme. However, many individuals build a career on these ideas, and become adept at sweeping the collateral damage under the mat. Those at the top, guided by evil medics, don’t heed the evidence but fall for the bullshit promises.

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago

Unless you’ve had your shot, we aren’t going to let you go out on the battlefield and get shot.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Yeah, debilitate your force first with unnecessary ineffective prophylactics then expect them to give their best performance. Wackos.

JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Seems they are intent upon repeating the WW1/Spanish flu through servicemen vaccination mistake 1:1.
And prove the saying that history repeats as a farce.

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Well, obviously they would be killed deader if they hadn’t had the jab, and the risk assessment people therefore say no.

Norman
4 years ago

These are mainly young men at the peak of their fitness. As with all matters Covid, the decisions defy logic.

JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Maybe they just deliberately want to fill up the cardio and cancer wards in the military hospitals?!

Proveritate
4 years ago

“will be processed for separation on the basis of misconduct for refusing the lawful order to be vaccinated” There is no ‘lawful order’ to be vaccinated. It is an order, but not a lawful order. US servicemen cannot by law be mandated to receive a vaccine that is unlicenced and only available under Emergency Use Authorization. There is not a drop of licenced vaccine available to them. Although BioNTech have FDA approval for their product Comirnaty, licensure for use also requires approval of the production facilities. Neither Pfizer nor any other vaccine manufacturer has approval – all production facilities are still under EAU. This has, of course, been confirmed in the courts on this very issue: every drop of Pfizer vaccine in the USA is not Comirnaty but the EAU product. It is also well known in the military that one needs both product approval and manufacturing approval for use as armed forces materiel. It matters not that a shell, a parachute, an ejector seat etc has approval in respect of design: if it is not made by an approved manufacturer then the product cannot be used. Thus the decision to fire servicemen who are entirely within their rights to… Read more »

Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

The key words are ‘lawful command”. There are already States’ governor challenging POTUS’ diktats to jab employees. If those challenges are successful, that’s a HUGE class action against the Pentagon.

Londo Mollari
4 years ago

It sure looks like the Pentagon is resigned to using nukes in its upcoming confrontation with Moscow.

Ah well, these discharged veterans will provide a handy nucleus for the Second American Revolution.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

I wonder if Russia is sacking 30,000 personnel?

If they do go into the Ukraine, America won’t be able to do the least thing about it.

RickH
4 years ago

Let’s look on the bright side : the world is a bit safer with a reduced US military capacity.

JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

A pieks dividend?!

TheApesOfWrath
4 years ago

“Thank you for your service” my arse.

David101
4 years ago

With “National Security” having been such a hot topic in previous decades, it of course makes perfect sense to discharge droves of military personnel and weaken a country’s capacity to respond to “National Security” threats.
Perhaps in the event of such a threat, the defence secretary will beg these loyal patriots to take back their jobs, since he has just rendered the nation defenceless!

Old Maid
4 years ago

One imagines that the US military possesses thorough, in-depth data on the side effects of the jabs that have been imposed on its servicemen and women? Is this information in the public domain? Does it correlate with, say, VAERS? Or another country’s vaccine injury reporting system like the UK’s yellow card system or the EU’s EudraVigilance reports (ie: are they lying?)?

jingleballix
4 years ago

Wow!

How can mandating medical treatment be a ‘lawful order’.

What are the figures of jab-related deaths and injuries in the US armed forces?

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago

refusing the lawful order to be vaccinated,”  If you ever want to see Tyranny, this is what it looks like.

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago

I wrote the attached letter to the Health Minister of Northern Ireland the other day. He hasn’t bothered to respond, I did say it was urgent, so I suppose I have to go public with it. I proudly declare my transvax status, and will not be minimised, discriminated against, victimised or excluded.

https://gab.com/boomerbloke/posts/107457128120261269

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago

Enough to form a new Confederate army?

Dermot McClatchey
4 years ago

Indeed. Somebody, somewhere, really does seem to be set on fomenting really-serious violence.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago

Let’s just hope it is not the orange madman coming back into power, as this would be a scenario far worse than covid.

tom171uk
4 years ago

Perhaps it’s a test of loyalty. If these men aren’t obedient enough to take a vaccine, how can they be relied upon to shoot their fellow citizens when commanded to do so?

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

Joe Rogan said his doctor, Pierre Kory, is part of a group that has used Ivermectin to quietly treat 200 Members of U.S. Congress for COVID19. Dr Simone Gold, from America’s Frontline Doctors, told that she has prescribed treatments for Congress. She still believes in her oath, but she is vocal saying she has been contacted by many in DC. Can you believe these demons? Healing for them are OK but not for us. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com

Early Doubter
4 years ago

When was the last battle where the US military lost 30,000 soldiers in one day? Another big victory for the anti-liberty tyrants.

Early Doubter
4 years ago
Reply to  Early Doubter

ANS: never more than 5,000 in one day (WW2 Battle of the Bulge) and the whole Battle of Normandy World War II June 6 to August 25, 1944 29,204 killed

sskinner
4 years ago

When the fighting starts it will be those 30,000 that are fit and healthy.

ThomasTurk
ThomasTurk
4 years ago

Smart eh?. Western Standard. WATCH: BC Doctor reviews ‘shocking’ stats from released Pfizer documents. Doctor Daniel Nagase, in an exclusive interview, reviewed recently-released safety data on Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Nagase came under fire for giving patients an unapproved treatment for COVID-19 while working in Alberta hospitals in September and was banned from working in Alberta Health Services facilities.
 https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/12/watch-bc-doctor-reviews-shocking-stats-from-released-pfizer-documents/