The military shouldn t be doing anything to make it harder to get young and men and women into the military or more likely to leave when their contracts are up. third, it is just not useful. the vaccine clearly doesn t do a very good job of restricting transmission of the virus. and for some people, older people or medically infirm people it does the end to reduce the severity of the cases but it is not the case when you talk about the healthiest cohort of americans, young men and women in teens and 20s physically and medically fit for military service. i urged the biden administration for the last year to eliminate this mandate which is counterproductive. i regret they didn t do it but pleased that congress stepped forward and eliminated it where the biden administration wouldn t. harris: the way you talk about the readiness and what we need in terms of men and women serving. it took them a year. all the people we re missing in the military because of this and
They talk about food and faith and tradition and thanksgiving. great episode. lawrence: you have been sending in your photos to us. let s look at some of the videos that we also, if you want to be featured this morning go to friends@foxnews.com and send in those photos men and women serving. look at that. rachel: this is from sean watching his son play his last game as a senior in massachusetts. that s something to be thankful for. joe: high school football, baby. lawrence: sandy and danny are pictured with four kids and five grandkids. they are smoking two turkeys today in virginia. i love a good smoked turkey. rachel: i do, too. i did t that last year. this year i m trying. joe: marine surprised them by driving home to louisiana. there is he in his pickle suit. that s what we call that. service uniform.
Including children and babies. 1144 allied service members, including from nato member states. 444 eight workers, and 72 journalists. the number of civilian deaths could be much larger, but that is the official number. 47,245. you can call the 20-year war america s longest war, only if you re willing to overlook the nearly 300 years of war waged against the people who were found on this continent, when the europeans arrived. americas genocidal war against native tribes it not officially end until the beginning of the 20th century. today, president biden issued a written statement saying, i want to thank our commanders at and men and women serving, further execution of the dangerous retrograde from afghanistan as scheduled in the early morning of august 30
Last time i was on here i got backed onto the corner on the stuff. i m not a cultural reporter here, okay? i m beyond upset. i feel betrayed. you know, i tweeted the taliban broke my body but the united states government broke my heart on this, right? week sacrificed a lot, and that s okay. my sacrifice was justified that it happened because other people came home that day and lived, but we ve got men and women serving right now and i couldn t imagine being there either on that flight line in kabul were sitting on a base somewhere here knowing you could be called up next, knowing that this is was going to have your back, but more importantly who isn t. and look, on the excuses part, this is the only president really that did not inherit this war. because even when george w. bush, you could say it s incompetence of the clinton, they could have squashed this thing to begin with and pretended to try. but joe biden was vice president. he helped preside over the
Those vaccinations. this affects a ton of people. the u.s. defense department is the largest-single employer in the whole country. in addition to the huge-civilian workforce associated with the defense department, there s more than 1.4 million active-duty men and women serving, right now. so, this requirement affects so many americans. it affects enough people, that it may, noticeably, impact the overall-vaccination rates, in this country. especially, if this requirement means that a whole lot of people associated with the defense department, all, get vaccinated, all at once. secretary austin said, in his announcement today, in terms of timing, that this new covid vaccine requirement for members of the military is going to go into effect, quote, no later than mid-september. or immediately upon full-fda approval, whichever comes first. that s a really interesting point and i d love to get some expert advice on that, in just a second. right now, covid vaccines are, obviously, approved. w