Excargodog

DeltaboundRedux

First...there were the "Unvaccinated".

Now...there are the "Unboosted".

What a glorious time to be alive.

rickair7777

Why would anybody join the mil if they're particular about vaccines?

History has clearly shown the mil will mandate vaccines, even controversial ones. Day one at bootcamp/OCS/etc will consist of about 20 shots.

bajthejino

Delicious...they can't even get all the active/reserve/guard to get the first round and now they're going to try and get boosters. Even with the high rate of vax at the camp I work at we have random outbreaks. And then the cure is to restrict people to 4 to a table in the dfac and designate a shower/latrine trailer for the PLAGUE carriers.

CX500T

Because at the time I joined, I had already had most of them, they had long track records and weren't political weapons with EUAs.

Then came anthrax.

Thanks to that, I almost died and have a lifetime SI that will likely cut my career short and took a solid decade off my life expectancy.

I was waiver from any further Anthrax shots or boosters. I started having bad reactions to flu shots, bad enough that I was hospitalized.

For the remaining 18 years I was in, I was waived from Flu, Anthrax and any "new" vaccine and it was a non issue.

Out comes the COVID-19 vaccine. My flight surgeon, my cardiologist and my oncologist all said "you do not get this until we have years of data"

Then the myocarditis being the most common adverse side effect came out. My cardiologist went "you never get this vaccine. Period"

Mind you these are all Navy doctors.

When COVID-19 vaccine became "Mandatory" they all wrote letters to my waiver package. Now mind you, any vaccine prior to this one only required one doc to say no, and that was the end of it.

No. Package with three Navy docs and two civilian docs goes up.

Overruled by a non MD Captain.

I told them in no uncertain terms I was not getting the shot contrary to medical advice and I would gladly see them at the Court Martial.

Mind you, the deadline was 3 days before my Mandatory Retirement date. 28 DEC vs 01JAN.

My retirement date was moved to 1 DEC after I rolled into the NOSC Command Suite with lawyers in tow when I was summoned to a "sign this page 13 and you can't write an under duress statement" and brought JAG.

24 years. Zero discipline items on my record ever.

Last day in the Navy had lawyers involved because Covid went political and the military political officers (O6 and above) went with looking good for their bosses over a very real chance the vaccine would kill or disable me due to heart damage from a previous "new but safe" vaccine.

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CX500T

Lo and behold, right after this post, this shows up in the mail.



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Zard

Lucky. I can't wait to quit again.

CX500T

My reseve center says they've processed more "early" (as in not high year tenure or another statutory limit, but over 20 years) retirements in the last 2 months than in the previous three years.

I only know the data for my squadron but our retention for the under 10 years total service group is horrible. Not just the vaccine but the over the top "rom" requrements, covid prison on deployments etc.

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Zard

unsurprising. I need to string this along til Jan of next year for the GI Bill and I'm strongly considering just punching then before I earn a retirement. The juice hasn't been worth the squeeze for a while, and booster nonsense is looking like the straw that'll break this camel's back.

A couple of years ago, I would have loved to be a reserve SAU skipper. Now, you couldn't pay me enough to do that job.

CX500T

I was a squadron XO that didn't make CDR so I've been the "I drink coffee and know things" LCDR without a real job for a couple years.

But I was also the only guy fully qualified for everything we do deployed on the reserve side.



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