{"id":1525411,"date":"2022-06-21T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525411"},"modified":"2022-06-21T19:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:19:45","slug":"i-see-the-impact-on-our-readiness-matt-gaetz-pushes-to-reinstate-service-members-dismissed-over-the-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-see-the-impact-on-our-readiness-matt-gaetz-pushes-to-reinstate-service-members-dismissed-over-the-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I See The Impact On Our Readiness\u2019: Matt Gaetz Pushes To Reinstate Service Members Dismissed Over The COVID Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fi-see-the-impact-on-our-readiness-matt-gaetz-pushes-to-reinstate-service-members-dismissed-over-the-covid-vaccine%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=1525411&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>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/matt-gaetz\">Matt Gaetz<\/a>\u00a0(R-FL) plans to introduce an amendment Wednesday reinstating armed service members who were dismissed for refusing the COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>When the\u00a0House Armed Services Committee marks up the National Defense Authorization Act, Gaetz will introduce an amendment protecting armed service members who refuse to get the COVID vaccine, reinstating members who were dismissed over their refusal at the same rank and grade, and providing back pay and benefits to the members who were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see the impact on our readiness from these mandates,\u201d he said during a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with The Daily Wire. \u201cWe are hundreds of pilots short in the Air Force and and we\u2019ve lost a number of pilots as a consequence of these mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Republican expressed frustration to The Daily Wire that the opposition to his amendments does not merely come from Democrats, warning that the leading Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers (R-AL), has expressed public support for the military vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that number reaches 100% quickly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-armedservices.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/rogers-statement-covid-19-vaccinations-members-military\">said Rogers<\/a> of the number of vaccinated service members in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not my view,\u201d Gaetz said of Rogers\u2019 remarks, \u201cand I doubt that\u2019s the view of a majority of Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of late May, the Army had discharged at least\u00a0742 active-duty soldiers for refusing to get vaccinated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2022\/05\/27\/number-of-soldiers-booted-vaccine-refusal-doubled-last-month.html\">Military.com reported,<\/a>\u00a0noting that the number had more than doubled since the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>The publication reported that\u00a03,416 general officer reprimands, widely seen as \u201ccareer killers in the military,\u201d had also been given out to soldiers who refused the vaccine, and the Army had only granted nine out of\u00a04,428 religious exemption applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are kitchen table issues in my district because I represent the district that has the highest concentration of active duty military in the country,\u201d Gaetz explained, emphasizing that after Afghanistan, mental health and \u201ca sense of self-worth\u201d among many active duty military and veterans has deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw that in higher call volumes to our veterans service organizations,\u201d Gaetz said. \u201cThis has compounded that malaise and frustration in our ranks because people feel like they didn\u2019t have any agency in how the military that they\u2019ve given their lives to is making decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the service members who submitted religious exemption requests got back blanket form letter rejections, the congressman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat violates the law,\u201d Gaetz insisted. \u201cEach exemption is entitled to an individual review, and our service members were denied that opportunity with these blanket form letter rejections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur military is not stronger today as a consequence of these vaccine mandate separations,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s weaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/department-of-defense\">Department of Defense<\/a> did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire addressing how many service members had been discharged for failing to get vaccinated, as well as how many religious exemption requests have been filed and how many have been granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deserve a military that is apolitical and doesn\u2019t cater to any ideology other than American success,\u201d Gaetz said on Tuesday. \u201cUnfortunately, we now have a military that embraces Critical Race Theory, that teaches socialism at the National War College, and it drives out patriotic Americans who are religious and faith based. Those features of the current military leadership are having a compounding negative effect on the fighting force and our nation\u2019s readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rep. Matt Gaetz\u00a0(R-FL) plans to introduce an amendment Wednesday reinstating armed service members who were dismissed for refusing the COVID vaccine. 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