Oddly enough....the Pentagon said early on....they weren't going to make the Covid shots mandatory. If you go asking how many folks have been vaccinated...the Pentagon says (around the 1st of July) that it's up near 70-percent.
The Navy ranks near 77-percent.....the AF sits at around 60-percent. I should note that the Marines are a good five or six points under the AF.
Well....rumor has it that the Pentagon is discussing a August-September 'order' mandating this....no exceptions.
Counter-chatter? Some Army folks have been direct....they won't agree to it. Numbers? Unknown.
What'll happen? I expect the order to arrive before October, and they try to quickly push out a thousand folks....to show they 'control' the problem. Once you get to around 3,000 folks dismissed....Congress will step in and ask questions.
In the case of the Air Force? You have a fair number of people with unique skills that you can't readily replace quickly. My humble guess is that they will hire up contractors (with the vaccinations) at a fair sum of money, and just hand the bill back to Congress to pay.
If they dismiss more than 10,000 total....across the four services? It'll turn into a scandal situation that can't be explained in public.
But here's the curious thing.....these statistics I quote...are active-duty only. No one is talking Guard or Reserve. My humble guess is that they are closer to 40-to-50 percent, and they really won't be agreeable to a mandated shot.
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