The Arizona Army National Guard stands with roughly 84 percent of its military personnel complying with Big Army’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate as the Army’s June 30 deadline for 100 percent compliance approaches.
“Out of approximately 5,000 Soldiers, the Arizona Army National Guard has 119 COVID-19 vaccination refusals,” said Maj. Kyle Key, the communications director for the Arizona National Guard.
“No separation boards for refusals have been scheduled at this time,” Key said.
The major said the information is not up-to-the-minute correct but has not changed much since the last survey of the force.
A spokesman for the National Guard Bureau in Washington told The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network that the entire Army National Guard force of approximately 440,000 guardsmen was 86 percent compliant with the vaccine mandate as of June 27.
Key said his state’s guard is also processing requests for dispensation from the vax mandate.
“We currently have 310 religious accommodation requests and four medical exemption requests,” he said.
“Soldiers who have applied for either religious accommodations or medical exemptions may continue to serve and train while their requests are being adjudicated even after the June 30 deadline,” he said. “Each request will be reviewed individually as we ensure their rights for a fair and exhaustive exemption process.”
In a Dec. 16 statement on Big Army’s vaccination mandate, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said she was committed to the mandate she imposed Sept. 14.
“Vaccinating our Soldiers against COVID-19 is first and foremost about Army readiness,” she said.
“To those who continue to refuse the vaccine and are not pending a final decision on a medical or administrative exemption, I strongly encourage you to get the vaccine. If not, we will begin involuntary separation proceedings,” she said.
Beyond exemptions for religious or medical reasons, the only other exemption is allowed for soldiers separating or retiring from the Army before July 1.
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Neil W. McCabe is the national political editor of The Star News Network based in Washington. He is an Army Reserve public affairs NCO and an Iraq War veteran. Send him news tips: [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter, TruthSocial & GETTR: @ReporterMcCabe
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The military wants nothing more than indoctrinated pansies for servicemen nowadays thanks to the trash in the Pentagon.
Didn’t the CDC or some govt agency say that forcing the vaccination on people and especially firing them if they say no is not legal according to the Constitution. No govt agency can use the threat of firing if someone refuses a vaccination. The threat and firing is illegal. So how and why are all these hospitals and govt entities getting away doing the very thing that the govt agency itself declared is illegal and vaccination is not even necessary if I remember because they said the majority of Americans are vaccinated and also had covid and won against covid and so should be immune. And yet the govt and biden and businesses are still firing illegally people who don’t vaccine. First the energy, than our economy, than illegals coming in making an undercover huge number of people who don’t pay taxes but can be supported by the legal taxpayer through govt programs draining the money citizens have to spend and support their families. Now restaurants and stores are closed to the underclass, now biden is going after no jobs and shrinking the middle class and destroying our medical and other jobs. This govt and the democrats destroying the tiers of our country. They are making the ability to rise up the tiers for all Americans to not exist. The democrats and biden want two tiers, the rich and in power and the worker or poor class with no power. Sounds like communism to me destroying capitalism with its large middle class the poor can move up to and the middle class can move into the rich. The poor and middle class lose in communism.