“I’m the guy” who ordered the military to require the vaccine, Austin added.
In the midst of a massive military recruiting crisis and Republicans taking the House, the misguided vaccine mandate may be on its way out.
Final defense legislation set to be unveiled next week could undo the Pentagon’s policy of kicking out troops for not taking the Covid vaccine, the Democratic chair of the House Armed Services Committee said Saturday.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said a rollback of the policy is on the table for a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act, but hasn’t been decided yet.
“We haven’t resolved it, but it is very fair to say that it’s in discussion,” Smith told POLITICO on the sidelines of the Reagan National Defense Forum. He noted that the mandate may not be logical anymore.
“I was a very strong supporter of the vaccine mandate when we did it, a very strong supporter of the Covid restrictions put in place by DoD and others,” he added. “But at this point in time, does it make sense to have that policy from August 2021? That is a discussion that I am open to and that we’re having.”
Biden’s Secretary of Defense insists that vaccine segregation must remain, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops, as Republican governors and lawmakers press to rescind it.
“We lost a million people to this virus,” Austin told reporters traveling with him Saturday. “A million people died in the United States of America. We lost hundreds in DOD. So this mandate has kept people healthy.”
“I’m the guy” who ordered the military to require the vaccine, Austin added. “I support continuation of vaccinating the troops.”
One million people and hundreds in DOD. The stupidity of this argument speaks for itself.
The latest DOD totals showed 690 deaths, of those only 96 were military. Last time I checked was in July and there were 95 military deaths.
The vast majority of deaths involved civilians. The people most at risk here are the elderly, immune compromised and otherwise not the healthy men that the military needs. Austin has no medical argument to make here, but the vaccine mandate was never actually a medical issue.
It was a political one that was part of the larger ideological purge of 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. 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.
That’s why Austin continues to stand by it even as Democrats are abandoning it.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Please fix the page formatting
Westman says
Austin obviously isn’t providing any solid justification for continuing a policy that weakens ground forces and also guts the intelligence needed to prepare and operate sophisticated devices used in warfare on the ground and in the air. The excessive dependency upon technology carries with it the vulnerabilities of needed training and low device replenishment rates as is becoming visible in the Russia-Ukraine war.
We all know the US military has lowered its standards in a failing attempt to retain its enlistment quotas. The fruitless Covid policy is dumming down the military, removing the most intelligent of real patriots who would die in battle for the nation but not for peacetime stupidity.
It was always unlikely the woke person would choose to voluntarily join and fight in the Army or Marines. Only a tiny minority of the Woke ever join the military. Their Woke ranks are in the streets, protesting, destroying, burning, playing Antifa, while wearing masks to hide their identity.
After this display of excision in a voluntary military, what rational person believes the military will fill its future enlistment quotas?
It seems the US has entered the age of Political Racism at a time when it creates terrible vulnerabilities. There is no draft and in fact there is now an expulsion policy of the intelligence needed in a modern military. Good luck with that. West of the US are political armies allied to a populist leader. That seems to be our new model under a Woke administration.
Westman says
West should be replaced by South, though Russia and China fit well.
wpm says
You can be a crossing dressing man, women, it ,who is one of the 57 new sexualities(like new food die made in a lab) in the world in the last 3 months it is OK in the new military in the new improved America, ,but to be “unvax “you thrown out of servicing and protecting your country..
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops”
Calling Dr. Austin, Dr. Austin…
The risk of the vaccine far outweighs the risk of Covid in young, healthy servicemembers – most of whom also have natural immunity.
joanofark06 says
Apparently, Austin is buddy buddy with whoever is running the de-population show, or else he’s just that ignorant, not to read up on how MANY young people have become physically disabled, or have died, from the “kill shot vaccine”. And believe it, when the lying news reports say they died from that awful virus, named “COVID!!”
A whole lot of military men and women, have heard about these, so called, “vaccine’s”, and the bodily harm and many deaths it has caused in this country, and around the world, and have shown this Austin “man”, that they are 100% more intelligent than he could ever want to be! I’d love to salute those open minded and intelligent people, that either, have decided to get out of the military, even though it’s time for them, to reenlist, or the young people who have decided that they will not join the military now, for the first time, when they were seriously thinking about it.
But then again, it’s too bad they won’t be part of the military, because these kind of people, are the smartest, and brightest, and the most observant to everything that’s going on, outside of their immediate world, and would make the greatest soldiers. And so, it’s sad to think about, all the rest of “them”, because their nothing but little rodents, who do whatever their told to do, or are, what I’d call, “Little Austin’s”, and will pay the price for being a little rodent, following the Pied Piper! Oh well, their still useful idiots…
How do you reduce a country’s population, without a war? And have a majority of their population willingly but unknowingly, give their life up? Or have the whole world believing, that there’s a very bad virus out there, that could kill them!! I can see every leader laughing, when most every person in their country, believe every word they say, and will gladly stand in line, to do what their told (Because their government would NEVER lie to them, and most importantly, would NEVER hurt, nor harm them!) Not even knowing, and so unaware, that each and every one of the world’s leaders, is following the same script, and making sure every one of their citizens do everything they say….so that no bombs drop, but the caskets DO!