Who will invariably get Covid in close quarters ANYWAY since immunization is NOT stopping military members ( or those non-mil people) from having breakthrough infections the majority of which will be asymptomatic (although still contagious) anyway. And as I said, the non-mil people all had the opportunity to avail themselves of immunizations if they wanted to (not that THAT was going to keep them from having breakthrough infections in any event either).

Rick, this was a bad call, and while I recognize your obligation as a military commander to support your chain of command, you can’t do so blindly. You can make the case that they MIGHT have been right, but after the fact - especially after Omicron - no one can objectively say that this has somehow benefitted either the military or those they work with.

THIS WAS A BAD CALL that cost the military far more than it benefitted the military. And yeah, it’s a sunk expense, once the (STUPID) order was given the cost to military discipline of not enforcing the order exceeded the cost of going through with that order, but even that got hamstrung by the NDAA restrictions and if it gets reversed in the next Congress that’ll undermine discipline still more. At this point all we can do is learn from the mistake, but that won’t happen if we stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that it WAS a mistake.