{"id":167224,"date":"2025-03-07T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=167224"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:19:13","slug":"vets-not-fit-to-have-a-job-and-covid-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167224","title":{"rendered":"Vets – “not fit to have a job”? and Covid update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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White House adviser Alena Habba stuck her foot right in it when she was asked about the thousands of people, many of whom are vets, who have lost their jobs in DOGE-led firings.<\/p>\n

Habba defended the cuts and said she had no sympathy for the thousands of people who have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t feel sorry for them,\u201d Habba said. \u201cThey should get back to work for the American people, like President Trump and this administration.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A bit tone-deaf there, lady – they just got fired<\/em> from working for the American people.<\/p>\n

“That doesn\u2019t mean that we forget our veterans by any means,” she added. “We are going to care for them in the right way, but perhaps they\u2019re not fit to have a job at this moment, or not willing to come to work.”\u00a0 NBC News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, perhaps, they just got fired because they were hired less than two years ago. Or because they just happened to be on some wunderkind’s list of “this office can’t be necessary” positions which can all be eliminated because someone doesn’t understand what they really do.\u00a0 Yeah, we’ve all seen veteran employees who seem to be stuck at a half-pace cadence… but then there are the ones who really try and, and make a difference. Tarring all of them with the same brush? Actually goes beyond tone-deaf.. and straight into some ****-you territory, lady. When did YOU serve?<\/p>\n

(Look her up. Check the number of times she has been reprimanded by judges, and her success record. Seems to me SHE is the one “not fit to have a job.”)<\/p>\n

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And in other vet updates – remember when 8,200 or so service members were thrown out for refusing to get Covid shots? (I am not going down the rabbit hole of whether they were immunizations, effective, made from dead babies, all of that. Not enough room in the column… and perhaps on the whole site.) But the shots were ordered, many refused, and many had to get out due to the refusal. Eventually in 2023, “all is forgiven, we’ll take you back” became the policy and in the intervening time, they have stampeded back into service. Not. 113 returned.<\/p>\n

Roughly 650 Marines and Army soldiers who were forced out of the military for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine have so far expressed interest in returning to the force under an executive order from President Donald Trump<\/span>, officials said this week.<\/p>\n

The number represents about 8% of the roughly 8,200 troops who had been discharged.<\/p>\n

Trump has argued that the vaccine mandate wrongly pushed troops out and suggested that many would return. In an executive order signed a week after he took office, Trump said that the mandate cost the military \u201csome of our best people\u201d and he vowed to \u201crehire every patriot who was fired from the military with \u2026 backpay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Trump\u2019s directive, those who were discharged for refusing the vaccine can rejoin and get back pay. Those who voluntarily left to avoid the vaccine also can rejoin, but they must swear that they left the service for that reason and they will not receive back pay.AP News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2023 those who left were told they could come back… a whole 113 reenlisted. Obviously the magic words “back pay” are having an impact.\u00a0 But note that the vast preponderance (over 90%!) have moved on… or remember that the same folks who said “screw you” in ’21 are saying “trust us – really” in ’25.<\/p>\n

Cynically, it is a truism that whenever you circulate a rumor that layoffs are coming hoping that your deadwood will quit, the real-world result is that your best and brightest jump ship first – leaving you with all your deadwood and fewer studs. Wonder if that is what we will see happen here?<\/p>\n

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