Congress will strip away the Defense Department’s requirement that all military personnel be vaccinated against the coronavirus, upending a politically divisive policy that has led to the dismissal of nearly 8,500 service members and numerous lawsuits.
“How does this impact deployments? How does this impact overseas training assignments? How does this impact overseas assignments generally?” this official asked. “What are the downstream consequences of this shortsighted insistence in the new law?”A Navy officer with more than 2,000 sailors under his command recalled standing before his entire crew and explaining why it was not only important to get vaccinated but essential to the Navy’s mission readiness.
“All of us who are wearing a uniform, we get a bunch of vaccines every year,” Berger told reporters in Washington. “We want Marines to get the vaccine not necessarily because it’s going to prevent them from getting it, but it’s going to prevent them from getting sick, in a hospital, and worse if they have other conditions. So you can expect us to keep pushing for it.”
“It opens the door for more pushback in the future,” she said. “The military fundamentally functions on the enforcement of the chain of command.” Sen. Rick Scott went further, saying Wednesday that anyone discharged should be reinstated in the military with back pay. It is not clear how the military would be able to implement such demands or how lawmakers would force them to do so.
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