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.
Tens of thousands of refusals? I don't doubt that many have claimed they will, but my admittedly ignorant self would be very surprised to find out that many actually disobeyed, and their peers still complied. Isnt the vaccination rate well over 50 percent without any actual orders requiring it
The problem is, the ones who haven't gotten it yet (which is about 40% of the USMC, for example) have said that they don't plan to ever get it. Say that half of them are bluffing -- that's 30K Marines (20% of the force) out right off the bat. Add in that the refusers are overrepresented in combat arms, and the DOJ has a real crisis on their hands.
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.
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