The Department of Defense (DOD) recently updated its orientation on the process to restore service members that left the military due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Although some members of the service return to the army, it would be premature to call this a victory, since politics does not do proper justice for the members of the service that have harmed the bones and that they cannot not?
To put the recent policy in perspective, let’s first consider the compensation package offered to transgender sailors who voluntarily abandon the service. In March, the Navy announced that due to the new policy of the Department of Defense that prohibits the transgender troops from serving, the transgender sailors who separate voluntarily will receive two full years of separation payment.
Let’s compare this with the policy sacrificed with the members of the separate service for the vaccine mandate.
The recent memorandum of the Office of Personnel and Preparation of the Department of Defense on the restitution of members of the non -vaccinated difference between the approximately 8,700 that were expelled or “separated involuntarily” and the tens of thousands who lost in the professional opportunities of the bee and the voluntary alternative “will be voluntarily separated.
Army captain John Frankman received his green beret at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in the graduation of the special forces qualification course in August 2019 (photo courtesy of John Frankman)
Army captain John Frankman and his team make military jumps of free fall in Eloy, Arizona, in June 2021. (Photo courtesy of John Frankman)
Army captain John Frankman (right) and his detachment are on the ground in Eloy, Arizona, after completing a free -drop military leap in June 2021. (Photo courtesy of John Frankman)
The members of the separate service involuntarily only receive the payment and the time accredited at their service if they agree four years of additional service, or two for those who were eligible for retirement within the two years of the separation. However, the setback is subtracted from anything that the service member did when they were expelled and when they return to the service.
Meanwhile, the much larger cohort of the members of the service “voluntarily” is not eligible for back -pay and must turn two years. To add more insult to the injury, the Air Force requires that aviators want to return to sign a document that indicates: “My decision to separate was taken freely and without coercion.” This language is disconcerting and reflects a deep disconnection between those in the DOD that these memoranda and the experience of the hundreds of thousands that suffered terrible under the mandate. (When a former intelligence captain of the Air Force separated for the mandate pointed to this in X, the DOD quick response account fixed“We are reviewing this”)
Therefore, unlike transgender sailors who will receive two years of separation, pay for voluntary separation, those separated for the vaccine mandate that do not choose to return to the service will receive nothing. Meanwhile, the separately will have the money earned outside the service tasks outside its subsequent payment and ages the age service commitment.
The service members who rejected the COVID-19 shot are heroes who defended the Constitution and deserve adequate restitution and justice, regardless of whether they return to the service. Its setback should not be used as a arbitrarily calculated rehistration bonus.
There are many other problems that this guide does not address that the defenders of the dod vaccine mandate have an exchange of bones for years:
- This guide does nothing to help the members of the non -vaccinated service to compensate for lost career opportunities due to the multiple policies of the defense department that attacked the unvaccinated ones.
- There is no recognition gift that the order was illegal since no product approved by the FDA was available for service members at the time of the mandate. (See 10 United States Code § 1107a.)
- There is zero responsibility for the upper leaders who enforced an illegal order and persecuted their subordinates.
- There is no help sacrificed to the injection of the vaccine.
He thought it is good that the DOD is inviting the members of the service not vaccinated to return to duty, this policy does not do justice to these brave men and women. These heroic people suffered terrible under their leaders and an organization based on trust. Many lives were destroyed and irreparably altered by the damage that this mandate was reduced. A re -registration bonus only for those who choose to return is not justice, but a negotiation chip.
The DOD must evaluate whether its objective is simply to pick up some people or do the right thing for those who damaged. If it is really doing things well, you must do more.
Perhaps the next time he creates an orientation to help the members of the unvaccinated service negatively affected by the mandate, they would do well to include those of us that we suffer under the mandate and we have bone legislation in this are the last years.
John Frankman was an army captain who served as a green beret of the Special Forces and resigned after eight years of active service due to the mandate of the Covid-19 vaccine. Follow it on Johnfrankman.com and in unknown and Instagram.