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Old 07-08-2022, 01:00 PM
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tnkrdrvr
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Yep. And losing 60,000 troops is a lot of pain for not very much gain.



Which is why you ought to be very careful in determining if the juice is gonna be worth the squeeze BEFORE giving an order.
As your quoted articles show, the problem isn’t the Covid vaccine. The problem is we are producing a generation of physically unfit people who literally break when put through physically rigorous training. The answer will be a longer basic training course that accounts for the need to take recruits from physically frail, but often obese, to physically fit. That will substantially add to the cost/time required for training.

To your initial thesis that ordering the Covid vaccine: yes, it probably was unwise from a purely military utility point of view. So was the anthrax vaccine. Decision makers make mistakes and the troops pay for it. Welcome to the military. These things happen from time to time.
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