Despite no correlation between vaccination and outcomes, SEALs threatened..again
Is this even legal?
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Americans are actively watching US military members its best warriors, be threatened and coming to an understanding of what the real and true feelings about sailors, marines, soldiers, airmen and guardians are.
In a move pleasing no one more than every terrorist organization on the planet who has an adverse reaction to small boats, Russia and China, the Navy has released a new directive that boils down to SEALs losing their job and forcing them to repay their training cost to the Government. For those unaware, to put a dollar amount on a SEAL, it would be in the millions, that’s per SEAL. Part of the reason they are so good is you take someone who can make it through initial training and THEN give them a ton of very good training. What people generally see is the several weeks of getting gut kicked, so to flippantly assert individuals exercising their first amendment rights or are choosing to leave rather than get the shot are just going to “repay the navy” is insane.
All this amounts to is further coercion in the midst of a historic “you can’t have another cookie” hissie fit. Not only is this a stupid plan, and to assume there has been a developed plan for almost any of the last year is gracious of me, but I believe this is going to bite the United States in ways they don’t expect.
This is not happening in a vacuum, and the SEALs, and other services for that matter that have been vaccinated are watching this. If people in this country think their opinions and emotionally or socially driven decisions, followed or not, are more important than to them than the people service members serve with shows a level of hubris I cannot accurately describe. Many people will continue to get these shots, a few will decline and get whatever vindictive punishment doled out, but I can guarantee many Americans are actively watching US military members, its best warriors, be threatened and coming to an understanding of what the real and true feelings about sailors, marines, soldiers, airmen and guardians are.
Would you like to know what scares the branches of the DoD more than the loss of any service member’s life, deterioration of psychological health or the loss of their ability to support themselves? Retention numbers (if you answered admitting anyone is ever wrong you still get a point). Despite the very best efforts of air dropping our economy into one of California’s beautiful organically grown forest fires, these are motivated capable men and women and there is an air of arrogance to think military service is the only option they have. To think they won’t or cannot go out and start a business, get a job, find another purpose is laughable.
I sincerely hope this ship rights itself, but it’s not looking too hot right now ladies and gentlemen. The conversation has been manipulated in such a way that any conversation about numbers, data, efficacy, or publications has been drowned out by the screams of a self righteous, incompetent or disengaged hive mind that the powerful in this country feed off of and garner votes from.
We have to bring conversation back and we need people who have the humility to admit they are wrong and continue to learn, people open to actual conversation, not platitudes designed to high road the men and women in uniform. We need to stop placing our faith in men and women drunk with power and seeking nothing more but to raise their station in what has become nothing more than the modern King’s Court. We must stop allowing emotion to drive our lives, when the so many echelons have gotten hooked on the drug of fear there is absolutely nothing good that can come from it.
Since data doesn’t work, how about a crystal ball?
Our military retention numbers will drop, our members morale will go sub-zero, we will continue to see suicide rates increase. The bumbling yes men will rise faster than they ever have, now more commissars than anything. Our members suspicion that people are keeping their interests in mind when making decisions will be confirmed, and they won’t go up that hill. Not in some charge in battle, but why develop the next technology for people who pay a quarter of what the private sector pays, why assist them in our competition with the 21st century’s arm race? Are people really so naive to think it is only trigger pullers being upset by this? How do we plan, short of threat, to get people to walk into the next Fallujah, when they know no one will not stand up for their religious rights at minimum, or stand up to ask questions or seek accountability for if not the mandate, spin a wheel and pick your next example of an event. Afghanistan, empty shelves (members have families that like to go buy groceries), the abandonment of Taiwan. I dunno, check your watch and get back to me.