Here’s What Secretary Austin Said When He Officially Rescinded the DoD’s Vaccine Mandate

The Department of Defense officially rescinded its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members on Tuesday as announced in a memo from Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Saying he is “deeply proud of the Department’s work to combat the coronavirus disease,” Secretary Austin claimed his leadership on COVID response “improved the health of our Service members and the readiness of the Force.” How’s that for some selective memory?

Austin remained in support of the vaccine mandate even as it was legislated away in the most recent NDAA. And, as then-GOP Leader (now Speaker) McCarthy noted at the time, the Army and Navy “missed their 2022 recruitment goals by thousands of service members” while “the Defense Department discharged 3,300 Marines, 1,800 soldiers, 1,800 sailors, and 900 airmen simply based on their personal decision to not take the COVID vaccine.”

That doesn’t sound like an improvement to the “readiness of the force” as Austin claimed in his memo that rescinded an August 2021 memo mandating members of the Armed Forces be vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as the November 2021 memo pertaining to the vaccination of National Guard and Reserve personnel.

So, even though vaccination against COVID is no longer a requirement, Austin said that the Defense Department “will continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all Service members.” (Read more from “Here’s What Secretary Austin Said When He Officially Rescinded the DoD’s Vaccine Mandate” HERE)

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