After only 95 COVID deaths, Biden wants to purge tens of thousands of unvaccinated personnel.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Army has admitted that it won’t meet its recruiting goals for the year.
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Martin told the House Armed Services Committee that the service will be 28,000 soldiers short of projections. The Army raised its maximum enlistment bonus to $50,000 and offers recruits up to $10,000 for showing up to basic training in 30 days. It routinely offers moral waivers for criminal records and no longer even asks for a high school diploma. And even in the midst of this massive recruiting crisis, it’s purging the unvaccinated.
According to the Army’s latest numbers, 1,379 soldiers have faced separation and over 3,000 written reprimands were issued for refusing the vaccine. The numbers are much higher among the Army National Guard where there have been 10,798 refusals and 5,098 in the Army Reserve. The majority however haven’t even applied for an exemption. There are 40,000 unvaccinated Army National Guard personnel and 20,000 Army Reserve and Biden’s war on them is dangerously undermining our national security in the face of our enemies.
In early July, Biden’s cronies within the military barred unvaccinated personnel from taking part in training and drills, and denied them their pay. This treasonously impedes military readiness and unit cohesion. It’s also potentially catastrophic when applied to a fifth of Oklahoma Army Guardsmen, 17% of the Arkansas Guard, or even only 5% of the Minnesota National Guard.
“To date, the military has lost more than 1,100 soldiers, 800 airmen, 1,000 sailors, and 2,000 Marines because of this mandate, with thousands more separations likely to come,” Senator Roger Wicker, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, warned. “We desperately need these service members, but President Biden seems content to lose them. His vaccine order is threatening our military readiness, and I have forcefully urged his officials to rescind it.”
Biden’s brass claim that vaccination is required to maintain military readiness, but they are the ones who have actually crippled military readiness. Earlier this year, hundreds of new recruits were being kicked out of the services over the vaccine mandate, some who had finished training, at a cost of millions of dollars. The Army alone appears to have wasted at least $11 million recruiting and training soldiers only to then prevent them from being able to serve.
All of this is going on while official Department of Defense data records only 95 military deaths due to COVID. Compare that to the 176 suicides in just the Army alone in one year alone.
The Navy has filed over 1,000 separations against personnel even though there have been only 17 COVID deaths for active duty personnel in the service. There are over 3,000 unvaccinated active duty personnel and also over 3,000 in the reserve. Despite over 3,000 religious accommodation requests, the Navy has approved only 42 active duty requests.
The Air Force has had only 12 hospitalizations and 16 military deaths, but has separated nearly 300 airmen for refusing the vaccine. Lawsuits over religious exemptions are still ongoing.
From the Defense Department’s own numbers it’s abundantly clear that there is no major COVID crisis within the military. There have been four times as many civilian deaths within the department than active duty military deaths. There’s no justification for the mandate and for wrecking the military and forcing large numbers of military personnel out of the services.
Especially during a recruiting crisis.
The threat to military readiness does not come from 95 deaths, but from the plot to purge thousands of active duty personnel over a political decision made by an unfriendly administration.
“The Biden Administration is destroying the readiness of our Armed Forces by creating an unnecessary recruiting and retention shortfall, and trying to make up the difference by lowering other crucial education and fitness standards,” Rep. Mike Johnson noted.
Lowering these standards, involving high school diplomas and criminal records, is crucial to the larger demographic agenda of the Biden administration which seeks to aggressively “diversify” the military by bringing in more Democrats and driving out more Republicans.
The vaccine mandate is playing the role of a political test.
The Biden administration came into office vowing to fight “extremism” in the military. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s political witch hunt can’t be separated from his vaccine mandates.
While Biden imposed a general vaccine mandate on federal employees, civilian government employees, mostly Democrats, have been treated very differently. Little has been done to pressure federal employees. At the VA, only six employees were fired and, in complete contrast to matters within the military proper, the VA “pushed all of its unvaccinated staff to seek religious or medical exemptions and has not questioned the legitimacy of any of those requests.”
The “VA has mostly offered those workers other positions that interact with less vulnerable patients or did not require in-person attendance, allowing it to actually fire so few staff,” Govexec reported. The VA’s approach has been described as a test case for the federal workforce and the agency is a member of the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force.
That very generous approach is the opposite of how soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines have been treated by the Biden administration. Unvaccinated federal employees are being given paid leave and encouraged to work online if they run into any issues. Meanwhile our nation’s heroes are being pressured, threatened and shown the door by the Biden administration.
While the Biden administration has defended its vaccine mandate for federal employees in court, it’s shown little eagerness to actually impose it on them. The federal vaccine mandate had been scheduled for May 31, before it was halted by a court ruling, but federal agencies hadn’t been taking any steps to prepare for implementing it because they have no desire to do so.
“During a moment of increased action from Russia to China, is it worth it? Is it worth sacrificing our end-strength for vaccine mandates?” Rep. Jim Banks had asked Gen. Milley. “Would you rather have a few extra battalions of unvaccinated soldiers or not have them at all because of this?”
“It’s tiny, the numbers that are actually being asked to process out, so I think it’s manageable,” the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had sneered. “If 2,000 are kicked out, I think that wouldn’t hurt.”
It certainly wouldn’t hurt Gen. Milley who was ready to endorse critical race theory in the military. It fulfills the Biden administration’s true objective of purging conservatives from the only remaining part of the federal government whose personnel are largely conservative. But it treasonously undermines America’s military readiness in the face of the enemy.
Democrats are hollowing out another part of the federal government to make it an even bigger sinecure for their people while driving everyone who isn’t part of their political machine.
Our nation’s heroes and our national security will pay the price for their treason.
Fane Babanul says
The purpose of the US military is not defend the US in front of ennemies like Russia or China or Islamic Jihad, but to be ready to execute a military coup and transform the US into a fourth world military tyranny.
This only expected when the Supreme Commander Joe is a traitor on the Chinese Communist payroll while Joint Chief of Staff Mark “White Rage” Milley had openly told the Chinese Communist Commanders that it will cooperate with them against the authority of the legitimate President Donald J. Trump.
gravenimage says
The purpose of the US military is not defend the US in front of ennemies like Russia or China or Islamic Jihad, but to be ready to execute a military coup and transform the US into a fourth world military tyranny.
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Based on what? the US military has never done this, nor threatened to do this. Nor is this supposed “purpose” listed anywhere.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
I may be wrong, but I believe that Fane meant that this is the NEW purpose of the US military – according to Biden and his handlers.
somehistory says
I agree with you, James.
gravenimage says
Biden’s Military Vaccine Mandate is a Political Test
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Grimly seems like it.
somehistory says
This is much like mozlum terrorists demanding captives say that their demon ‘god’ is the only god and when the victims won’t say it, slaughtering them.
these men and women are being put out due to not being willing to serve biden and his agenda, and do even things that shouldn’t be demanded, but left to the personal choice and consciences of those being told they must take the jab.
so, far, the jabs haven’t protected against any virus…and were not even meant to protect the recipient. they have caused countless deaths and disabilities; with heart attacks and strokes being at the top of the list of adverse reactions.
the men and women in the House, in the Senate, and their staff members aren’t being treated to the same demands, and are still getting paid, while many are not *earning* a dime of it.
biden is one of those “snakes in suits” as are his cohorts in this diabolical scheme.
Westman says
Where did Milley come from that he doesn’t know that it is the Patriotic Right that fights the wars when you have a voluntary military? Does he really think the pseudo fly-boys at the controls of armed drones could win a war against China and Russia? We need those unvaccinated men with guts!
What a disaster! Incompetent President, girly- boy military leaders, thieves and murderers running amuck in the big cities, no-committment men making doomed babies, a government incompetently damaging the economy to control a nature more powerful than humans, another attempt to make productive citizens using handouts, and corporations that would sell their own mother into prostitution – making US citizens into dependent consumer robots.
If there was a war with a real adversary, we might lose.
DRLJR says
People should also do some research on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. What has been found is that what killed the super-majority of people was an experimental vaccine that caused bacterial meningitis infections. We are in a repeat of the 1918 Flu Epidemic with the COVID-19/Wuhan/Fauci virus injections. What has been found and many are trying to hide is the injections make it more likely to get infected by the virus and suffer more. And the injections harm the body causing death and other medical issues.
CogitoErgoSum says
I can hardly wait to see what happens with Monkey Pox.
somehistory says
Thousands already have the pox. NY gov has declared it a “disaster emergency ”
and biden has covid….again….
Infidel says
He should take more booster shots… maybe that will end it!?!
somehistory says
why not? We can, the “People,” mandate it….pres’s like to say they have a “mandate from the people.”
Infidel says
I’ve heard of people getting it twice, but this is the fastest recurrence that I’ve heard of
(sorry, previous response posted before I was ready)
CogitoErgoSum says
It’s probably because he has cancer.
somehistory says
it’s his constant lying denials. His body can’t find the virus and the lies at the same time.
CogitoErgoSum says
Joe Biden is more fun than a barrel of monkeys (with the pox).
somehistory says
can’t **fight*…not find. No one has *found* it as yet….no id of the virus, so many doc’s have said. and the “experts” are back to saying “wet market” yada yada, no “release” or “leak from a lab.”
It’s one of those things that just never goes away as long as they can get anyone to believe it’s true.
somehistory says
I’m so glad I do not work or live in d.c….the district of corruption…nor in DE where I might have to run into him. shudder, shudder
CogitoErgoSum says
DC is a nice place to visit but, no, you wouldn’t want to live there.
somehistory says
I went there once in ’68. Once was enough.
CogitoErgoSum says
In another life a long time ago I worked there for 5 years – not going to say doing what. I was a nobody but I hope what I did mattered. Overall though it was a rat race I did not want to run. That’s all I have to say about it.
somehistory says
I completely understand. Glenn Beck says that the who guy wants to change the name of monkey pox because…wait for it….monkey is racist.
CogitoErgoSum says
Only someone who is racist would think Monkey Pox is racist. Stuff like that just makes things worse. I remember when covid first became a thing the Democrats were saying calling it China virus was racist and so they went to China town and started hugging people who looked Chinese. Next thing they were telling everybody to avoid all human contact and shut the country down. They are gearing up to do the same thing with Monkey Pox.
somehistory says
Yes, he is racist. He proved that when he complained about ukraine getting so much attention with his African country wasn’t…said it was racism.
they could begin hugging monkeys…evidently it was dx’d in the animal first even though rodents carry it.
Hug those monkeys, and rats…they should feel right at home with the second group.
CogitoErgoSum says
Rat pox is next … but calling it that might be racist so we will just expect the Black Death to show up soon. Oh wait, that’s racist. We will call it Bubonic Plague – coming soon to your neighborhood.
somehistory says
One day, they’ll just come right out and claim it’s all “White” death, pox. virus and whatever else floats their leaky boat.
Every word they encounter these days has to be redefined or eliminated; I have surmised why the who guy said monkey pox is racist. You probably have also.
CogitoErgoSum says
Tucker Carlson suggested a new name for Monkey Pox. He got accused of being homophobic because of it. I would call it all a big joke – but it’s all so sad.
somehistory says
If more people just said what is to be said, and fewer apologized afterward, people who complain about everything would suddenly find that no one was listening.
I am really tired of the whole thing.
CogitoErgoSum says
Amen.
john smith says
Sounds about right to me Cogito, Rat pox will be next. It was chicken pox when I was a kid, now it’s monkey pox, rat pox will be next, which I seriously believe it could be.
The re-emergence of the bubonic plague is by no means a fantasy, many countries have been working on biological weapons for decades.
Westman says
Unless it mutates, it should move like AIDS, outward from the gay and bisexual groups – it requires contact to spread. For those who are consistent with one heterosexual mate it can be avoided.
If it mutates into some airborne strain, we all have a problem.
somehistory says
Kids have gotten if from their homosexual family members.
Walter Sieruk says
Not really wanting to get too much off the main topic about those Biden politically correct power vaccine mandates concerning the US military. Still it should be mentioned about that picture of horrible Joe having pizza with the troops. ‘That’s a real “put up” by Biden and his handlers ‘
That staged scene is very obviously nothing but a clearly apparent but feeble attempt to make Joe Biden “look good.” This is an old ploy of what a sociologist would call “impression management.”
So completely terribly dishonest and fake Biden and his crew are.