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The military vax mandate hurt the force and negatively effected the lives of countless service members. Thank you @Floridianpress for publishing my op-ed. Thank you to @RepMattGaetz and his office for helping to get this published. https://floridianpress.com/2023/07/unvaccinated-green-beret-pressured-to-leave-the-army/
Unvaccinated Green Beret Pressured to Leave the Army
My name is John Frankman. Up until very recently, I was a Captain in the United States Army serving as a Green Beret at 7th Special Force
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@johny_franks - John Frankman
My response to the Army’s recent letter trying to bring back the unvaxxed soldiers it forced out and mistreated. Follow the tagged accounts to support DoD accountability. https://t.co/LgYbWTNI8R
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The military is facing a recruiting crisis and a lack of readiness due to the COVID vaccine mandate. Over 8,000 service members were kicked out, causing retention issues and disillusionment. The treatment of those who were discharged was unfair, with restrictions on dining facilities, gyms, and travel. The military sent letters offering the opportunity to upgrade discharge statuses and rejoin, but there are problems with the letter. There is no new policy, no accountability for the illegal mandate, and no apology. Without accountability and apologies, those who were mistreated will not want to return. Solutions being discussed include upgrading discharges, allowing automatic return to service, and seeking accountability through research and hearings.
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Speaker 0: So last week, the army sent letters to service members kicked out because the SHOP mandate, stating that they could apply to get their separation or discharge statuses upgraded. And that they could contact their local recruiter to come back in because the policy changed. Now the military is having a crazy recruiting crisis right now. I think it's as bad as it has been since Vietnam. And that numbers remiss by tens of thousands.
So they're just having trouble replacing and keeping up a force. So readiness readiness is crushed. And the military COVID shop mandate was a huge readiness problem. The military kicked out over 8,000 service members. You had many such as myself, so retention issues, who are disillusioned and choosing to leave.
You also have now this recruiting crisis, and we have an unknown number of service members who've been in injured. And basically there's just not trust. And service members who were kicked out, they were treated terribly. Many of them were not able to eat and enter the dining facilities where vaccinated service members went to. They were forced to mask when others weren't.
They couldn't go into the gym. Service members such as myself, I couldn't deploy, I couldn't move to a different duty station, I couldn't travel. When I was in a training environment, I had to wear a red wristband saying that I was unvaccinated and red tape trying to indicate that I was different or somehow unclean. And people's careers their lives are messed with. They didn't know what was gonna happen.
You're you're messing with their livelihoods. So Now all of a sudden the military thinks they can send this letter to us and that we're gonna wanna come back. And there's a lot of problems with the letter. And Some of them are to me, what was most obvious is there's no new policy. The policy to apply to upgrade your discharge has always been there.
The policy that you can go to a recruiter to try to get back in. That's already existed, so there's no new policy. Further, there's no accountability. This order, there there was no FDA approved shot which means that the order was not legal. In order it's very simple.
In order to order in American, a service member to take a shot, it has to be FDA approved a approved. And there was only emergency use authorized approved when the mandate came out. So the military did something illegal, they forced you to take an experimental shot. There's no accountability for that. There's no accountability for how this dumb decision making, how forcing someone to take something that we knew caused heart issues in young men, where we didn't know the long term consequences.
Common sense would tell you, hey. Maybe we shouldn't jab the entire force of those who are expected to protect and defend the con the country. So No accountability for that just as there was no accountability for the Afghanistan withdrawal, for leaving equipment there, and there's also no apology. Even when the secretary of defense rescinded the mandate, he was very proud out saying that the mandate was great, we've saved lives, I'm proud of how many people we vaccinated, congress is forcing my hand, I would rather not do it this way. So just so proud and arrogant.
And even now the military is not they're not admitting they were wrong to enforce these policies. And these policies obviously they didn't matter. Congress just threw them out, and here we are. So without any kind of accountability, without any apology, and admitting that they're wrong. No one who is treated this poorly is gonna wanna return.
I can guarantee you that. It's just it's just not gonna happen. Maybe the people who are a year out from retirement might come back but why don't just do the right thing and let them get back their time in service and let them retire. These steps, it just doesn't go go far enough. So I was on the hill last week with a couple other individuals, and we were fighting for involuntary veterans.
Errands who, against their will, were separated from the mil military because of this kind of illegal, immoral, medically unsafe order. And we've been trying to discuss and talk about actual solutions in order to overcome this. So some of those solutions are putting amendments into the National Defense Authorization Act. Those amendments would automatically elevate general discharges to honorable. And what a general discharge does, that means that you can't use the GI Bill to go to college.
That means that your characterization is said as having committed a serious micon misconduct. And that can affect job applications. It can affect your ability to continue federal service. So upgrading those general discharges, allowing service members to automatically be able to return to service if they want to, getting them back pay. Their livelihoods were were destroyed.
Getting some accountability. Why don't we do a good thorough research and see what were the medical side effects from this shot. Seeing who knew what and when, did SacDef know that he was not allowed to order us to take emergency use authorized shot. I know he did. I'm sure he did.
We told him. We told him about the medical issues as well. When did they know it? What did they do to hide up? Why is no one fired from Afghanistan?
Why is no one fired from this recruiting crisis? How is the military any better under Biden, under Lloyd Austin, under General Milley? It's absolutely not and readiness is destroyed in morale is even worse. So pushing for these different amendments, pushing for the Americans Act, which a lot of senators are pushing through brew, but even some republican senators are not, such as Amit Rami. Thank you for retiring by the way.
And also getting some hearings. And really big on the hearings. And I think we should do some regional hearings to discuss this because a lot of the American people don't know just how poorly. Those who swore to protect and defend the constitution, potentially with their lives, how poorly they were treated for just trying to follow their conscience. For trying to avoid using a drug that's experimental, that is involved in in abortion.
All of them used aborted fetal cells following their religious beliefs, which is a first amendment right. So until we have some actual accountability until we get some apologies, I wouldn't think that this letter is gonna do anything. So you can send out whatever letters you want. You can bring whatever celebrities you want up there, you know, including The Rock and hey, I'm probably the biggest wrestling one of the biggest wrestling fans in the world. But that's not gonna make me wanna come back into the military.
Not at all. So, DOD, you have some work to do.