{"id":165407,"date":"2025-01-15T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=165407"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:08:19","slug":"pete-hegseth-wants-to-reinstate-with-pay-and-rank-troops-kicked-out-for-refusing-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165407","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth wants to reinstate, with pay and rank, troops kicked out for refusing vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Angry-NPC-Donald-Trump-COVID-19-20250113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Angry-NPC-Donald-Trump-COVID-19-20250113-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Angry-NPC-Donald-Trump-COVID-19-20250113-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Angry-NPC-Donald-Trump-COVID-19-20250113-342x333.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Angry-NPC-Donald-Trump-COVID-19-20250113.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense, he will begin the process of correcting the wrong done to troops kicked out for refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine. During the first day of his confirmation hearing, Hegseth mentioned the fact that troops were kicked out of the military due to their refusal to take an experimental vaccine. He declared that these troops would receive an apology and be reinstated and re-instituted with pay and rank.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Air Force Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During comments at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth vowed to reinstate and reimburse troops dismissed from the ranks for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise statement came amid unrelated questions about Hegseth&#8217;s views towards diversity and discrimination policies in the military. Hegseth, who previously served in the National Guard, said past Pentagon policies requiring the vaccine amounted to its own form of religious discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tens of thousands of service members were kicked out because of an experimental vaccine,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;They will be apologized to. They will be reinstated, reinstituted with pay and rank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defense Department leaders mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for all troops from August 2021 to January 2023, with limited exceptions for medical issues or religious objections. About 8,000 troops were forced out of the service for refusing the order.<\/p>\n<p>That number represents less than half of 1% of the total military end strength. But in the years since the mandate was lifted, conservative lawmakers have accused Defense Department officials of severely impacting force readiness with the dismissals and called for those individuals to be allowed to return to the ranks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shane III, L. (2025, January 14). Hegseth promises to reinstate, repay troops who refused COVID vaccine. <em>Air Force Times<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/14\/hegseth-promises-to-reinstate-repay-troops-who-refused-covid-vaccines\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense, he will begin the process of correcting the wrong &hellip; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth wants to reinstate, with pay and rank, troops kicked out for refusing vaccine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165407\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pete Hegseth wants to reinstate, with pay and rank, troops kicked out for refusing vaccine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-vaccine","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}