Lloyd Austin to make covid vaccination manditory for all active duty troops.

[applegrove]

Should come at the end of the week. CNN

[PortTack]

1. Yeah!

[CottonBear]

2. This is excellent news.

[SheltieLover]

3. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Elessar Zappa]

4. Good!

[Mysterian]

5. I expected Secretary Austin to do this

I have worked with him and he is an extremely intelligent and decisive leader.

[brush]

6. Joe made some good picks for his cabinet.

[Baked Potato]

7. Good for national security. Nt

[BComplex]

8. Exactly what I was thinking. If they have to be deployed, we don't need them getting COVID

on the battlefield.

[Phoenix61]

9. WooHoo!!! Won't be long before all contractors on

the bases will have to get the vaccine.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. ...To Serve and Protect indeed...

[BeckyDem]

11. Great news +1

[PatSeg]

12. I was always under the impression

that when you joined the military you didn't have any choice about vaccinations, that they were mandatory. I don't see why COVID would be any different, especially during a pandemic.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. When I was drafted during the Vietnam War there was some type

of vaccine stuck in our arm every Saturday during basic training.

[PatSeg]

25. Yeah, the guys I've known who served

got tons of shots and there was no choice in the matter. Once they signed up, their bodies belonged to the military.

[niyad]

16. If I remember correctly, the possible issue was waiting for full approval of the

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vaccines.

[PatSeg]

26. Yes, that dawned on me

Still, I would think that the military would have the right to restrict you if you were unvaccinated.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

18. The issue is the vaccines don't have FDA approval

Federal law requires requires informed consent for military personnel for vaccines under an EUA. This can be waived by the President if he determines vaccination is in the interest of national security. If it isn't waived, then personnel cannot be ordered to be vaccinated unless the vaccine has full FDA approval.

[Kaleva]

22. Okay, that explains it.

[PatSeg]

27. Thanks

[Wounded Bear]

20. You're right...

when it came time to get shots, they lined up and gave us shots.

No ifs, ands, nor buts.

[albacore]

23. Me, too.... I found my old shot card the other day..32 inoculations..typhus, Plague..the whole works

[Wounded Bear]

24. Yep, especially preceding an overseas assignment...

[PatSeg]

28. Oh yes, particularly if you were being

shipped overseas. A few posters explained up thread that the vaccines don't have full FDA approval yet, so the option to decline the vaccinations still is valid.

[albacore]

29. Southeast Asia War Games....our motto "Hey... we came in second..got the silver medal"! nt

[PatSeg]

30. Whoa, that is an awful lot

Were there many side effects getting so many at one time?

[albacore]

34. I have no idea. Boot camp... training...infantry schools...shipboard...hot places....

...shit flying around....

Side effects..? Sheeeit! Who would notice?

[PatSeg]

35. That's a good point

I remember my brother talking about boot camp years ago and it all sounded so brutal.

[Myrddin]

36. That pic reminds me of my basic training for the RAF

We had to do the same, walk a gauntlet of nurses/ orderlies stopping every 10 feet to get a shot in each arm. About 10-12 in all, then a repeat a few weeks later.

[Hekate]

13. Good!

[48656c6c6f20]

14. Great. Now the USA needs to commit

To vaccinating the world. By God if we could turn out planes, boats/ships, guns, and tanks by the shit load during WW2 we can make enough vaccines for the world. Let's be bold and lead again.

[niyad]

17. Excellent

[musclecar6]

19. Great News

Every little bit helps getting the stupid assholes who still haven’t voluntarily gone out and got vaccinated, ordered to get vaccinated.

[ColinC]

21. This includes active duty for training too, I hope?

[Aristus]

31. Good.

When I was in the Army, there was never any question about getting our vaccines. And I never even remotely considered that one could refuse the vaccine. We were ordered to get them and we got them. Of course, the only motive behind this was keeping the fighting force healthy, so refusing the vaccine would just have been a paralyzingly stupid thing to do .

Although I was a tanker, and the tanker's motto is "Tanker Tough", I wasn't exactly John Rambo or anything. So when I hear about soldiers today screeching and whining about having to get their vaccines, I can only wonder at what weak, slack-muscled, mamas-boys they all must be.

[keithbvadu2]

32. Trump's shaman was kicked out of the Navy for refusing an anthrax vaccine.

https://democraticunderground.com/100215594260

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/gop-rep-thomas-massie-schooled-after-claiming-military-will-quit-if-the-covid-vaccine-is-mandated/ar-AALNaaS

GOP Rep Thomas Massie Schooled After Claiming Military 'Will Quit If the COVID Vaccine Is Mandated'
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Trump's shaman was kicked out of the Navy for refusing an anthrax vaccine.

He did not 'quit'.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/12/navy-career-of-qanon-shaman-ended-after-he-refused-anthrax-vaccine.html

[CRK7376]

33. About time!

I don't know why DOD did not make this happen 6-8 months ago....Glad they finally did.