This decision is wrong on many levels.
wrote that the Department of Defense will “continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all service members.”
That’s little comfort for the more than 8,400 service members already booted for refusing the vaccine. They can petition their service to correct the “characterization of their discharge,” Austin wrote.He highlighted that military commanders will still be able to consider immunization status “in making deployment, assignment and other operational decisions, including when vaccination is required for travel to, or entry into, a foreign nation.
Then there’s the question of fairness for those who are vaccinated. Will they have to do extra work or deploy more than their unvaccinated peers?, and 96 military members have died as a result of the disease.
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