OK Pete, step up...

[Ramp Guy]

... and remove this from the reinstatement agreement!

"Former military members who left the service over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate have been offered the opportunity to return and receive the same rank and pay as before, but only if they claim their exit wasn’t coerced. Several say they cannot attest to that."

Come on and stop being part of "what the government always does"

Make those who were force out whole again.

 

[vraiblonde]

I wonder if that's really part of it. The media lie so much and then they all quote each other so they all are lying. It's impossible to know what's real and what isn't.

 

[Ramp Guy]

I wonder if that's really part of it. The media lie so much and then they all quote each other so they all are lying. It's impossible to know what's real and what isn't.

I'm sorry... here is the link.

Servicemen who left over COVID vax can be reinstated, but must say they weren't coerced to leave

"I have grave concerns that not many people are going to be interested in that deal," said attorney R. Davis Younts, who represents military members and veterans.

justthenews.com

"The number of military members who were forced out, or their careers were permanently destroyed because of the mandate, “is somewhere between 8,600 and 250,000, because the DOD said 250,000 military members weren’t vaccinated when the deadline passed,” Younts said. He said it’s unknown how many of the 250,000 eventually took the vaccine to stay in the military.

Younts, who is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Air Force Reserve and former Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) lawyer, explained that he was “disappointed by the initial guidance, especially with the Air National Guard,” as it appears to discourage “people from coming back.”

“I talked to several clients who were forced out,” Younts said, and they “have no interest in signing the document,” but would otherwise “gladly come back in. They don’t care much about back pay, but they are not going to sign a false statement just to come back in.”

 

[Ken King]

Seems the information might be somewhat offtrack. There are two types of those involved, those that were involuntarily dismissed and those that chose to voluntarily leave on their own. It is that second group that must state that they were not coerced.

This has been the plan since February - https://www.defense.gov/News/News-S...ck-troops-separated-for-refusing-covid-vacci/

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I knew a couple (stupid) civil servants that quit because they didn't want to take it, all the while others just didn't take it and the only thing that happened to them was they weren't allowed to go on official travel. All you had to do was look at things that happened in the past and realize it was just huffing and puffing.

 

[Ramp Guy]

Seems the information might be somewhat offtrack. There are two types of those involved, those that were involuntarily dismissed and those that chose to voluntarily leave on their own. It is that second group that must state that they were not coerced.

This has been the plan since February - https://www.defense.gov/News/News-S...ck-troops-separated-for-refusing-covid-vacci/

thanks for the update

 

[Ken King]

thanks for the update

No problem, but I wouldn't say "update" as it is more of an old news sort of thing.

 

[SamSpade]

I knew a couple (stupid) civil servants that quit because they didn't want to take it, all the while others just didn't take it and the only thing that happened to them was they weren't allowed to go on official travel. All you had to do was look at things that happened in the past and realize it was just huffing and puffing.

We were instructed during the vaccination period to scan our COVID cards to show we’d taken the shots and boosters. And without it, we’d be fired.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

We were instructed during the vaccination period to scan our COVID cards to show we’d taken the shots and boosters. And without it, we’d be fired.

I remember hearing "we're not sure what will happen if you don't"

 

[Grumpy]

I just said it was against my religion and never heard a thing after that.