{"id":1126063,"date":"2021-12-16T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126063"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:59:04","slug":"exclusive-sen-ron-johnson-torches-defense-secretary-austin-for-discharging-service-members-for-disobeying-bidens-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-sen-ron-johnson-torches-defense-secretary-austin-for-discharging-service-members-for-disobeying-bidens-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Sen. Ron Johnson Torches Defense Secretary Austin for Discharging Service Members for Disobeying Biden&#039;s Vaccine Mandate"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fexclusive-sen-ron-johnson-torches-defense-secretary-austin-for-discharging-service-members-for-disobeying-bidens-vaccine-mandate%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=1126063&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1232563114-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slamming him for discharging service members who have not obeyed his \u201cambiguous\u201d vaccine mandate,&nbsp;Breitbart News has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Johnson wrote that he sent a letter to Austin about his August 24 vaccine mandate. The Wisconsin conservative noted that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) admitted there is an insufficient \u201capproved supply of Comirnaty, the only fully-licensed vaccine.\u201d Johnson demanded to know, given the limited supply of Comirnaty, how Austin will make service members comply with the vaccine mandate.<\/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>Reports suggest that 27 Air Force service members have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-%20security\/2021\/12\/14\/air-force-vaccines-discharges\/\">discharged<\/a> for noncompliance with the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson wrote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\" readability=\"9.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>Despite this lack of clarity, DoD has reportedly begun discharging service members \u201cfor not obeying orders to get vaccinated.\u201d Reports indicate that on December 13, 2021, the Air Force discharged 27 service members for noncompliance with the DoD\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. An Air Force spokeswoman stated that these 27 individuals were \u201cthe first active- duty Air Force Members to be discharged over the Pentagon\u2019s vaccination requirements for military members.\u201d The discharge classification of these 27 veterans is uncertain, as is their eligibility for veteran benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\" readability=\"10\">\n<div class=\"column\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>\u201cDespite my and other concerned individuals\u2019 attempts to get clarity about your COVID- 19 vaccine mandate, you have ignored our requests for information, and instead have allowed DoD to discharge service members for not obeying your ambiguous mandate,\u201d Johnson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Wisconsin senator demands that Austin explain:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ol>\n<li>Please provide the number of doses of the fully-licensed Comirnaty vaccine that have been given and are available to active-duty military personnel.<\/li>\n<li>Will DoD provide a vaccination waiver acknowledging natural immunity to active-duty military personnel who have been previously infected with COVID-19? If not, why not?<\/li>\n<li>Please provide the total number of active-duty military personnel who have not yet received a COVID-19 vaccine and, of those, how many have received a medical or religious exemption.<\/li>\n<li>Please provide the total number of active-duty military personnel, broken down by branch, who have been subject to a discharge procedure for noncompliance with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Please identify the types of discharge procedures.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Johnson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/05\/09\/gop-sen-johnson-nobody-should-be-forced-coerced-pressured-to-take-the-vaccine-this-is-a-right-to-choose-issue\/\">said<\/a> that every person has the \u201cright-to-choose\u201d regarding whether they should take coronavirus vaccines. Breitbart News also exclusively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/14\/exclusive-sen-ron-johnson-presses-biden-to-monitor-alarming-adverse-reactions-to-coronavirus-vaccines\/\">reported<\/a> in July that he has called on the Biden administration to monitor adverse effects to the coronavirus vaccines.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slamming him for discharging service members who have not obeyed his \u201cambiguous\u201d vaccine mandate,\u00a0Breitbart News has learned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}