{"id":101529,"date":"2022-02-03T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=101529"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:31:33","slug":"us-army-announces-discharges-for-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/02\/03\/us-army-announces-discharges-for-unvaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Announces Discharges for Unvaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101530 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Staff-Sgt.-Travis-Snyder-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 The U.S. Army announced Wednesday it will begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Army said effective immediately, commanders are to &#8220;initiate involuntary administrative separation proceedings against any Soldier who has refused the COVID-19 vaccination order and does not have an approved or pending exemption request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement says the order applies to regular Army soldiers, active-duty Army reservists and cadets.<\/p>\n<p>The directive was issued by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, who said in the statement, &#8220;Army readiness depends on Soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation&#8217;s wars. Unvaccinated Soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement said service members separated due to their refusal of the COVID-19 vaccination order will not be eligible for involuntary separation pay and may be subject to recoupment of any unearned special or incentive pays.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republican lawmakers have expressed misgivings about the vaccine mandate for U.S. service members. Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, last week tweeted that &#8220;millions of taxpayer $ will be spent discharging unvaccinated troops &amp; recruiting replacements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unvaccinated soldiers who have requested medical exemptions or religious accommodations are temporarily exempt from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement while their requests are under review. Soldiers retiring on or before July 1, 2022, will be given a temporary exemption.<\/p>\n<p>The Army said that as of Jan. 26, 2022, 96% of its active-duty personnel and 79% of its reservists were fully vaccinated. As of the same date, of the 709 permanent medical exemptions applied for, six were approved, 656 were disapproved and 53 were pending.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, of the 2,910 religious exemptions requested, none had been approved, 266 were disapproved and 2,644 were pending.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 The U.S. Army announced Wednesday it will begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In a news release, the Army said effective immediately, commanders are to &#8220;initiate involuntary administrative separation proceedings against any Soldier who has refused the COVID-19 vaccination order and does not have an approved or pending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101532,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101529\/revisions\/101532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}