"Risk to the Force": The US Army To Let Go Of  Soldiers Who Refuse Covid Jab
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Soldiers who refuse to comply with a required Covid-19 vaccine requirement will be discharged, the US Army announced on Wednesday.

“Unvaccinated Soldiers put the military at risk and threaten preparedness,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said in a statement.

“For Soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and do not have a definitive determination on an exemption, we will initiate involuntary separation proceedings.”

According to the announcement, more than 3,000 soldiers might be fired. By the end of 2021, the army had a total of 482,000 active duty soldiers.

Six high-ranking officers had been removed from their posts as of January 26, including two battalion commanders, for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

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3.073 troops have received formal “reprimands” from the army for refusing to be vaccinated.

Personnel who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 would be discharged from the US Navy, the Navy said in mid-October.

Because a single Covid case may infect an entire ship or submarine at sea, knocking it out of service, it has been particularly vulnerable to the epidemic.

The navy claimed in a news release on Wednesday that roughly 8,000 active duty and reserve service members had yet to be vaccinated, and that 118 people have been terminated as a result of their refusal to receive the vaccination.

More than 300 Marines have been discharged, according to the Marine Corps.

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According to the Pentagon, about 97 percent of the approximately 1.4 million active-duty US military personnel have gotten at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccination.