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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.
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.
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.