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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Whipple and Triggle are as bad as each other.The BBC have never had a less convincing health correspondent.
Whipple’s education and working history tell you all you need to know about his total lack of competence to be a ‘Science Correspondent’
AKA Prophet of doom/Doctor death.
Wouldn’t this site be doing everyone a favour by educating why the vaccine is not the way out of this mess? It seems from this mornings latest news that the UK government intends to stop all travel until at the earliest July , possibly September. This is despite deaths with covid19 registering only 17.
Apparently the 3rd wave will sweep in from mainland Europe. However all causes excess deaths in Europe are now below trend , in France which is about to go on the red list, it is well below trend.
It is the continuing psyop run by most anglosphere and european governments that is creating the crisis. Taking an emergency use novel vaccine is not necessary. All that is required is stopping the cumulative use of misleading statistics and ending the 24/7 propoganda.
However the truth is, as the editors of this site must be well aware, this is not happening because the government and its advisors and backers want to force the vaccine on the population as the only means to restore some semblance of freedom. The very real possibility is that even with a high uptake of the vaccine those freedoms will never be restored.
Another casedemic. Why are deaths and hospitalisation not the only metric that matters? Oh that’s right because we have to put an experimental mnra fluid into the entire population. Why does anyone especially the enlightened people on LS be forced to listen to a know nothing tool like raspberry ripple? Why would anybody be surprised that a fully paid up member of this dictatorship is making these comments? Stop putting this crap as headlines. We know what he thinks. This should be treated with the same level of surprise as a football manager blaming the ref after they lose.
Are you suggesting that he and the rest of us sceptics don’t love Big Boris; sorry: Brother, et al?
“the only way out of this mess is the vaccine”
This is so wrong. What if they hadn’t managed to create a vaccine? Lockdown forever?
The way out of this is to revert to the pandemic response plan in place before March 23rd 2020. ie follow the science
And the logic, even on its own merits, is misleading. It is not “vaccine”, it’s “vaccines”. Looking like at least 3 trips at least per year to the permanent town vaccination centre. Possibly more.
For the foreseeable. Relentless propaganda and Nuremburg busting laws to maintain uptake throughout. If this is the way out, then its utterly dystopian
You are so right Steve. Why are they still pedalling this bullshit view. Have they missed whats going on in Florida? How has the experimental mrna fluid helped all the youngsters who are currently banging the life out of each other with no effect? The ONLY people who need this fluid in their arm are people whose immune system is compromised by illness or age. The rest of us have NO reason to have their immune system genetically altered. I have got to 61 without any problems why would something, that to me is like a mild flu be a reason to take part in the biggest science experiment in history?
We should be outraged that under new travel restrictions owners of overseas foreign properties will be allowed to visit them to prepare them for sale or rental.
Surely someone around Johnson must realise what an invitation to take the piss this is ?
Any old spiv with a flop house in Majorca can just turn up at Stansted with a bottle of Cif and a pair of Marigolds claiming to be about to prepare their ‘property’ for rental.
Let’s hope this finally sinks bozo and his unlovely gang.
Great post we are outraged!!!!!
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To Everyone I have the link for this it is 52 pages long but you can scan through and find everything you need to know.
Just one paragraph but of course there’s an awful lot more.
Evidence from John P A Ioannidis (Meta-Research Innovation Center at Standford – METRICS – Stanford University), one of the ten most cited scientists in the world (in the field of medicine arguably the most cited scientist in the world), has ranked the mortality rate of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in the range of that of influenza as early as March 2020 (Doc. A. 6). In a peer-reviewed study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization on October 14, 2020; Type: Resarch Article ID: BLT.20.265892 (Doc. A.7), Ioannidis demonstrated that the worldwide panic at the end of January 2020 regarding an alleged high mortality rate associated with SARS-Cov-2 infection was and is simply unfounded.