{"id":1118025,"date":"2021-12-14T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1118025"},"modified":"2021-12-14T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:29:21","slug":"pentagon-coronavirus-vaccine-booster-shot-requirement-under-active-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-coronavirus-vaccine-booster-shot-requirement-under-active-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: Coronavirus Vaccine Booster Shot Requirement &#039;Under Active Discussion&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-coronavirus-vaccine-booster-shot-requirement-under-active-discussion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1118025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Tuesday a booster shot requirement was \u201cunder active discussion\u201d at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still under active discussion at the Pentagon. But there\u2019s been no policy decision made about requiring the booster shot, making it mandatory,\u201d he said during an off-camera gaggle with reporters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I want to add the secretary strongly encourages those who are eligible to get the booster shot because the science does show it absolutely helps reduce the risks of contracting and certainly for those who get it in breakthrough cases, the science shows that it minimizes the effects of covid. So we strongly encourage people who are eligible to get the booster,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Department of Defense is not tracking the number of service members who have taken the booster shot, since it is not mandatory and not every service member is eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said currently active duty&nbsp;personnel with at least one vaccine dose is now over almost 97.2 percent, and active duty personnel that are fully vaccinated stands at almost 91 percent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19129202\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235147006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19129202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235147006-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Preventative Medicine Services NCOIC Sergeant First Class Demetrius Roberson administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a soldier on September 9, 2021 in Fort Knox, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said of the total force, including reservists and the Guard with at least one dose, it is almost 90 percent. He the total force who are&nbsp;fully-vaccinated stands at just under 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the vast majority of our people, and this shouldn\u2019t get lost \u2014 the vast majority are doing the right thing and did the right thing even before the vaccine was mandatory but they\u2019re getting the shot, so I think it\u2019s important to keep that perspective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding news that the Air Force is discharging 27 airmen over declining to get the vaccine, he said administrative discharges are \u201ccommon practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Air Force alone in 2021, they administratively discharged over 1800 Department of the Air Force service members for non-COVID related reasons, so I get the focus on the 27, but again, administrative discharges are common practice, and you can see the numbers \u2014 the vast majority, the vast, vast majority had nothing to do with COVID,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported by Breitbart News, the Navy relieved Cdr. Lucian Kins on Friday for declining to take the vaccine or submit to testing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Tuesday a booster shot requirement was \u201cunder active discussion\u201d at the Pentagon. \u201cIt is still under active discussion at the Pentagon. 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