Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin officially rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine mandate Tuesday evening in a memo, stopping any more military separations due to refusal to get the shot series. Congress, through the National Defense Authorization Act 2023, ordered the Department of Defense to rescind the vaccine mandate, which Austin ordered in August 2021 upon FDA […]
The Navy will move to monthly reporting of COVID-19 vaccine separations, the sea service announced in its now formerly weekly update. The move comes after two weeks of active-duty separations in the single digits. Over the past two weeks, the Navy separated two active-duty sailors and 25 reservists, according to the update. The latest separations […]
Navy separations due to continued refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine rose by nearly 70 sailors over the past week. Approved separations, which do not necessarily mean the sailor has yet left the service, are now at 884, according to the Navy’s weekly COVID-19 update. The Navy has the second highest number of separations, behind the […]
The Navy separated 50 sailors in the past week for refusing to get vaccinated against COIVD-19, bringing the total of separated sailors to 320, according to a spokesman with the chief of naval personnel. The sailors were all within their first six years of services and had ranks ranging from seamen recruit to petty officer […]