June 30 marked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s arbitrary deadline for National Guard members and reserves to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine despite Congress’ mandate that the Department of Defense identify uniform procedures under which service members may be exempt.
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If Secretary Austin applies this mandate to service members who chose to be vaccinated for reasons of non-public fitness or devout exemptions, the National Guard will be paralyzed. The resolution may simply punish the same military that has been on the front lines of the fight against this pandemic.
As a member of Congress and a colonel in the National Guard, who had COVID-19 and was vaccinated, I can’t believe a more reckless resolution than rebuking tens of thousands of National Guard members who answered the call of duty. Nor can ours the existing army adopt it. Currently, each and every branch of the U. S. military is a major player in the U. S. military. U. S. workers are suffering greatly to recruit men and women to join their ranks. This year promises to be one of the worst years of conscription for our military since the Vietnam War.
Whether it’s enforcing a vaccination mandate on our troops, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, or increased vigil indoctrination through mandatory seminars and education, our military is running out. Along with our recruitment difficulties with China’s large army buildup and Russia’s ongoing war trail. in Ukraine, our national security cannot threaten not to have the workforce in a position to fight the next war or face an emergency here at home. While Biden’s management is mulling over its decision, guards and reservists cannot take part in educational training or war games. This particularly reduces their combat capability if National Guard outfits have to be activated to fight or in the event of an herbal disaster. We pride ourselves on having the world’s most productive trained fighters and keeping them at home only makes us less prepared for our next military adventure or a large-scale internal crisis.
In addition, these guards have been excluded from the remuneration of the service and their pension benefits are compensated.
Many proponents of the vaccination mandate will point to the existing needs for service members to get more vaccines to serve. Of course, it is vital that we have order and field in our ranks, and infantrymen will have to stick to orders. But leaders want to reevaluate the requests once the cases have changed.
The truth is that the COVID-19 vaccine was developed under an emergency order and other mandatory vaccines have decades of studies for their protection and efficacy.
Two things have been replaced since the mandate was implemented. First, the vaccine has been shown not to prevent the spread but decreases symptoms. Second, tens of thousands of National Guardsmen and reservists have expressed serious reservations about the vaccine’s emergency progression.
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It is irresponsible to paralyze our army, which is basically made up of healthy young men and women.
Many of those infantrymen have already been exposed to COVID-19 and last year’s defense bill in particular asks the ministry whether past exposures induce durable antibody protection, which can produce similar degrees of immunity to the vaccine.
If those conclusions are met, there is no excuse for members to serve in uniform.
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President Biden and Secretary Austin have a resolution to make. It will be difficult.
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Republican Michael Waltz represents Florida’s sixth district in the U. S. House of Representatives. UU. Es a member of the Armed Services Committee, a Green Beret veteran of Afghanistan’s war on terror, a former White House counterterrorism policy adviser, and the e-book “Warrior Diplomat: The Battles of a Green Beret from Washington to Afghanistan. “