Free force reduction might not be such a bad idea. Everyone who stays in has had their obedience re informed, and everyone who leaves is likely dishonorable discharge, or other such reason to deny pensions unemployment, disability or any other things that cost the military money.
Afghanistan over, so fewer troops on the payroll the better
I doubt they'll get a dishonorable discharge for refusing the vax. More likely a General Discharge, medical discharge, etc. Most dishonorable discharges are for serious violations of UCMJ after doing time in military prison. When you give someone a dishonorable discharge, you're basically making him into a felon. No firearms, no voting, and the loss of more rights and privileges.
Makes sense. I'm somewhat ignorant on that subject and assumed one could only get honorable or dishonorable, the latter being the likely result of knowingly and willfully disobeying a direct order. Or however the legalese goes.
Yeah, lots of paperwork and legal procedure goes into a dishonorable discharge so the military bureaucracy will just try to avoid it. And I doubt Ft. Leavenworth will have enough room for 10s of thousands of service members that are refusing the vax.
There are multiple discharges:
1) Honorable. You did your time, no issues, extra bennies, etc.
2) General discharge. You werent a boyscout, but didnt cause enough issues to get kicked out for misbehavior.
3) Bad conduct discharge. You were kicked out for snorting crack off a stripper's ass in the parking lot instead of showing up to PT. This is vaguely equivalent to getting fired.
4) Dishonorable discharge. You screwed up so badly that they threw you in jail for a long time before kicking you out. The stripper was a General's daughter, underage, AND you put your meatstick into her.
It can be an Article 92 violation, but the reality is, if they are going to be discharging even thousands (and not the likely hundreds of thousands) then they can't even manage to get the court-martials done -- and you are still on payroll while you are being court martialed or waiting for court-martial.
So, if they want to get it done, they will be discharging people as medicals or general discharge. I don't think many BCDs will happen at all.
(Actually, I don't think there will be any discharges. I think it is a bluff. They honestly can't drop this many people at once and still fully fund all their SJW bullshit programs.)
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