It’s funny how some of you are stunned something like this can happen in the military, but this is just the norm, especially on the green side of the services. Shit, I’ve been in formations where you weren’t released until you filled out your monthly allotment form for CFC (combined federal campaign, basically forced donations to a select list of “charities”), so hearing no leave or liberty for the unvaccinated comes as no surprise to me. This has been the status quo since George Washington was the CG.
Lawsuits? Hahaha, that shit is prohibited by federal law and anything filed would be immediately thrown out. You can’t even sue for medical malpractice in the military, much less for a Commanding General’s decision. The lone option the troops have is requesting mast or whatever the Army calls it, taking it to the three star, and even that is likely to fall on deaf ears as he was probably in the loop and approved it before the order was even made.
After fourteen years of living that life, these are the biggest reasons I left all that retirement on the table, it wasn’t worth my and my family’s freedoms any longer to stay in uniform. When you serve, you SERVE at their direction and go, do, and be what they say you will. As much as I still recommend it to many of today’s youth to join, it is always with a heavy caution of the sacrifice they are making. Shit, I was even heavy handed on that caution when I was a recruiter in the middle of the wars, and is why I had so few back out from shipping off because they knew what they were getting in to as much as I could express to them. They all knew they would likely go to war, they would likely see action, and it would suck ass the entire time they were doing it.
