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uwumao 6 points ago +6 / -0

Contacting my IG is the next step, and I'm planning to contact them tomorrow.

As for the charge, it's not coming from my peers. It came directly from my CO. In an e-mail, we were directly told we will be hit with Article 90 if we refuse the vaccine unless we receive a medical exemption (another route I am currently pursuing).

Thank you for referencing DA-PAM 40-502. I will look into this. If you have anymore directives/orders I can dive into, I would greatly appreciate it.

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uwumao 3 points ago +3 / -0

Wish I could. Conveniently, I was prescribed it for a deployment 2 months before COVID hit..

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uwumao 7 points ago +8 / -1

It seems that he was far from the decision making of this. Officially, the DoD is not requiring it, but individual commanders of units are making it mandatory. Colonels likely do not need authorization from the Whitehouse to implement policies such as these. As stated in Official Orders, commanders have the ability to make a vaccine mandatory if it's for "Operational Readiness."

I am unsure what channels they must go through to deem a vaccine as needed to be operational ready, but nevertheless, that's what they are doing.

Of course POTUS has the ability to override commanders and deem it not necessary for operational readiness.

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uwumao 1 point ago +1 / -0

With this information, I hope as a community we conduct our research in better ways to stay better informed. I do not condone any activity that can be used for nefarious intent with these methods.

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uwumao 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is this where the counter protest starts to take up the dialogue in the rest of the country?

I hope so! Let's just make sure we police our own so nothing dumb happens. Show them marxists how to gain support of a nation instead of attacking it.