I'm military, and I fully expect to be forced out of service after 23 years of honorable service over my refusal to get vaccinated. The pressure applied to servicemembers to get vaccinated is extremely high, and I've seen many who didn't want 'the jab' eventually cave to the coercive threats.
You think they’ll just let everyone leave or line everyone up and force them to take the shot or give them a field grade article 15 and then a general discharge? Maybe some will repent afterwards and take the shot instead of the general discharge.
I don’t recall during my service time anyone just being able to leave because they didn’t want to follow a direct lawful order and not have repercussions.
We had a guy who needed an MRI and everyone scared the crap out of him about the “small tube”, “hard to breath”, “he could get stuck” etc. after a few months of rescheduling, the doctor called our unit and the company commander had him escorted to his next MRI appointment by MP’s.
They will do a major threat campaign and most will bend the knee. My command has about 3.5k people and we're in the 70% range already for vaccination status after a big push of threats of missing predeployment leave (which for us would include a mandatory quarantine for the unvaccinated over Thanksgiving) when we were stuck at 46%.
Yes I think they will threaten article 15 and many will concede or attempt to fabricate vaccine cards to avoid the adverse discharge. I'm hoping I just get force-retired.
If you’ve done 23 years our time overlapped for 5-8 years(I don’t ever give the actual years to avoid doxxing)
Besides medical, the only way I saw lower enlisted able to get out with honorable discharges were being overweight and being forced on a diet, doing extra PT and they’d sneak food to keep the weight on. Risky if they catch you or suspect you’re doing it on purpose.
Failing a PT test and then doing extra PT until your next test and failing it again. Risk factor is the same as above.
The other one was becoming a problem child and getting in trouble all the time, that one was iffy, if they liked you and it was just a bunch of small stuff that finally added up, you could walk away with an honorable otherwise it was a general. Risk factor same as above.
Going AWOL for 21-28 days without a deployment pending/missing deployment. That was an article 15 and then an honorable discharge.
I wanted out a few times but could never do anything like that. It just felt wrong, I signed the contract/s and couldn’t lower myself to look like a failure. Anything I do if I’m not the best I practice until I am or close to it.
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