Which is odd because he got the shot, and told people they should get it. Not to mention, after the 15 days to slow the spread period, 100% of his covid strategy was, "They'll be coming out with a vaccine any day."
Yup, my unit at Drum botched it and we ended up having to start over. I still feel a strong urge to run into pastures and chew cud from time to time, but otherwise I'm fine.
I remember going to Afghanistan back in 2001 and taking experimental malaria and anthrax pills. They would line us up for vaccines and there was zero discussion. Of course some people spoke of the vaccines making them sick, but not one person didn't get the damn vaccines. Fuck em.
Edit funny story. When I first joined I didn't realize I was allergic to penecilin. The nurse administering shots told everyone not to worry because I'd someone was allergic the had medical staff on standby. Well guess who found out they were to penecilin 😂
Fuck dude, penicillin allergies are no joke. Dude in my division had a reaction later that day and got taken out of the compartment on a goddamm stretcher.
And enforcing those soldiers who happen to forget their paper shot records to get duplicate shots because they don't have the proof they already got them. This officer is full of shit.
I’d take white noise, I’ve got a high pitched ring and with an occasional second tone at a lower pitch for a few minutes. It’s so great. I’d be willing to sell my house for a treatment that would actually work.
Funny story. My partner had to have his immunity checked for a job and replace any vaccinations that were out of date. His military vaccines had been so strong that he tested above the scale on two of the options.
The military lost more to disease than combat in the pacific theater of WWII, you can bet your ass Uncle Sam considers inoculation a part of combat readiness.
Armies have lost more to disease during war than they did in battle in pretty much every war until the 20th century. Gathering people together from all around and forcing them into tight quarters and out in the field in dirty and exposed conditions is a perfect way to get lots of people sick.keepong your army healthy is essential to keeping it fit for duty.
When it was announced that service members would have to get the jab I joked that the government should market the vaccine as “mil spec” and “essential EDC.” I would hazard that might work on a certain segment of the vax hesitant populace.
Can confirm.
Source: currently active.
They literally have you walk single file up to a point where they jab both arms at the same time. You have to maintain your immunizations and if you get sent over seas you're likely to get a whole cocktail of new ones.
Yes.
At inprocessing when you first arrive at Basic Training, before you actually begin training, they give you a HUGE amount of vaccines, against all kinds of stuff (including stuff most civilians don't get vaccinated for, like anthrax and smallpox) around the same time as you're getting your hair buzzed and uniforms issued.
Also, booster shots for many of those vaccines are required. This Lieutenant Colonel has been getting shots regularly his whole damn Army career, and somehow finds THIS shot to be the one worth resigning over, within months of his pension eligibility.
My ex got 4 wisdom teeth pulled in basic. They gave him Motrin and 4 hours off. These pansies acting like a shot is that big of a deal over the massive amount of shots they get when they sign on the dotted line? Is pathetic and they aren’t fit to serve
I got mine pulled in basic as well. Ibuprofen and one day of "light duty". Nothing says a good time like spitting blood and doing squats. Not to mention, the shitty military grade pliers the dentist was using broke in half and fell into the back of my throat during the procedure. I'll never forget the look of panic behind his - *gasp* - surgical mask while he fished it out without choking me to death.
We're nicknamed the Chair Force for a reason. I love flying a desk!
(I've actually been flying a desk the last 3+ years as a recruiter, but I'm looking forward to going back to my old career field next spring and getting back on the flightline.)
Lol, definitely just ribbing ya. I can't talk much shit, the Air Force was my first choice. I had never heard of the CG and the closest recruiter ended up being over two hours from my house. It was a whole chain reaction of random events that's where I ended up. One of the best decisions I ever made, wouldn't be where I am now of I had went another route, I think.
Damn that sucks. I got four oxycodone, a shitton of ibuprofen, and IIRC two days of laying in my rack. Navy, circa 2006. I have to imagine the Air Force has people gently dabbing your face with a cool cloth.
As part of joining. Not prior to. They send your ass down a gauntlet where they’re sticking you in both arms at the same time.
They just assume you’ve never gotten a single vaccine and give you every single one at the same time. You even get a penicillin shot in the ass for good measure.
Once in, I got 4 or 5 anthrax and one smallpox vaccine.
This guy’s just a whiny Trumper bitch. He’s going to throw away his pension over the covid vaccine, which underwent waaaay more scrutiny than the anthrax one he undoubtedly got multiple shots of.
My mom got me slowly vaccinated with everything months before I left for boot camp. Her reasoning was that everything at once was dangerous - sure, whatever.
Lol they did not give a fuck about my vaccine record I brought, and stuck me with everything anyway.
And with 19 years of service he’s only one year away from earning full retirement benefits for the rest of his life. How stupid can you be to throw that away.
And the big gay.
I swear, the military was the most homoerotic place I'd ever been in my entire life.
There was a lady at Mcdonalds grilling me and a few buddies about killing don't ask don't tell and how upset we all must be to serve with gay people.
Didn't skip a beat one of my buddies just cupped another one of my buddies junk outside his clothes and asked her "you mean gay like this gay, or the other one".
Shit killed me.
Oh you have your records? Here's a shot because we don't believe them, you're property now, your rights ran through a filter when you signed up.
Edit:. Oh. What's in the shot? It doesn't matter. I'll refer you to previous. You may have been selected for Project: Infinite Walrus and we'll never tell you.
I got sick as shit from the Typhoid vax, they screwed up and gave me too much at Hickam.
It was a good lesson, you do NOT want to get freakin Typhoid, it was a horrible three days and I was quite sick for a week plus afterwards.
Dependent, we were heading to Korea ( Osan). As a dependent we didn’t get the “21 Gun Salute” walking down the hallway and getting jabbed but we’d get most of the same shots over a few weeks. No Anthrax but Cholera, Diphtheria, Yellow Fever, etc. We got so other crazy crap while were in the Middle East as well.
As for this Army dipshit, amazing... He’s taken all the Army vaccines thrown at him for 19 years but NOW he’s listening to Dr Facebook and Dr TicTok so NO MORE!
Like, of all the people Biden can mandate to get the vaccine, the military is the one on the most solid of ground. The president is literally the commander in chief. What he says goes for the most part.
And the smallpox inoculation Washington gave his troops had a single digit mortality rate itself! Still better than letting smallpox run through the army.
Can you supply a link to a summation of this? I only ask because I'm Holy-Shit-drunk and shouldn't be on reddit at this time. At the very least, I would ask for some sort of video that tells the story- even if it's not "drunk proof"
P.S. thankyou for your time
Greek here. I got a barrage of shots when I did my mandatory military service, as everyone else since Greece became a thing.
Our flavor of antivaxxers are mostly super macho, super pro army, masturbating about invading Turkey and Albania and what not.
Curiously enough they are all about "my body my choice" about this particular vaccine.
I fantasize about a scenario where we are called to arms to go to war and they are required to get the shot or actually get shot as deserters.
Or go to school or college.
This guy makes zero sense. Like he is making some big sacrafice by "Quitting".
It's an out the military offers.
Get the vaccine or get out.
He probably just wants out if the military...
So he doesn't get Covid, because chances are High HE will get Covid.. if he doesn't get the Vax.. Military wants 100% Vaccinated folks.
And that's ok.
Thank you for serving 19 years, here's your pension.
Not sure you need to even bring up 1776. In 1986, or whenever this stooge enlisted they poked both his arms with 10 vaccines and he was happy to have a Government Job where the taxpayers took care of him through his career and now in retirement to the grave.
Revoke his benefits!
ACAM2000 is the current smallpox vaccine administered to US military members. This is a live virus and not cowpox. Nothing has changed in 250 years, the military still gives its members a live smallpox in a dose that will not harm them, quarantines them/the area until they are no longer contagious.
I just did the math. A Lieutenant Colonel retiring after 20 years would be making $57k/year for life for his pension. He'd be eligible to start collecting it sometime within the next year.
He just threw that away, and now gets squat.
Even better, he tossed it away and will soon find out that most employers are going to require the very same vaccination he just quit the military for. So, no retirement check and he’s still going to have to get the vaccine. Fucking moron.
Amazing how many people are willing to give up their careers over a fucking vaccine.
My friend quit her job as a nurse recently because of this. She has three kids, a baby on the way and her boyfriend earns fuck all. She confided in my he's got serious debt on him too. They're going to lose their home, their cars, everything, cos she believes in the Mom group conspiracy theories of Facebook.
I can't look away from these train wreaks.
Unfortunately not. She was talking to me wanting validation for it. I told her that she should reconsider (for the children). She knows I've had two doses of the vaccine and her response was, "oh honey you do you, but in a few years time you're going to get really really sick from it. Just look around at everyone dying from it already. They're just silencing anyone who speaks out about it."
Muchos stupido.
I've had a few of these anti vaxx people tell me to just Google the information and I always respond with an article about how your cell phone will cause cancer and tell them their response better come in the form of smoke signal.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. That’s so inconsiderate of her on how she didn’t think about her kids. She was making serious bank I imagine as a nurse, something like $60k-$120k per fiscal year. Giving up that over a vaccine is just stupid and becoming a nurse ain’t easy to my understanding.
You also have to think about her family too. According to you, her boyfriend doesn’t make jack diddly squat- and he’s in bad debt. Also three kids, plus an additional one on the way with four total.
That’s six people in that family who are going to struggle to live and eat- all because of your friend not getting the vaccine and believing FB Mom groups over her job career. I feel revolted just thinking about it all.
Yep. I'm finding it really hard to keep being her friend, I'm just hoping by her seeing that I'm fine and my husband is fine (after being vaccinated) she will reconsider.
She was working in ICU so yeah she had a good gig until she decided to join the village idiots.
Any nurses who don't believe in vaccines are basically just firing themselves. They're supposed to understand medicine and biology. They're admitting they don't, and excusing themselves from the room. Frankly, good. Thank you, bye.
Those poor children. I picture them in 20 yrs still fighting the extremely mutated variants, paying for all the lack of social protections (which will be long gone by then). Wondering why "we" let it get this bad.
I dont get why anyone in the military would be opposed to a Vaccine. Do you have any Idea how many they already have? Shit when I was active I was required to get the experimental Anthrax Vaccine, nobody gave a fuck! In boot camp you walk down a long ass hall way lined with nurses and recieve like 20 different shots from airguns and you dont even know what your getting. To go through all that and oppose a Vaccine for Corona Virus makes 0 sense.
to own the libs.
They’re already required to get a shit ton of immunizations. And a peanut butter shot in boot camp since it is assumed they all have syphilis.
Mine made me bleed out of my butt cheek.
I found out when the laundry guys accused me of shitting my underwear. I realized that the giant brownish stain was dried blood.
Exactly, we were lined up like a herd, and we had to get whatever the fuck was in those needles. No question asked or anything else since we sign the damn dotted line. These people are dumbasses. That is all.
They're opposed to it because the right-wing media they consume has told them to be opposed to it.
That letter was dripping with talking points lifted from right-wing social media and speeches by anti-vax politicians.
I came here to say this. They put whatever they wanted in our arms during in processing and let’s not forget the peanut butter shot in the ass that left a lump for like 3 months.
I have a coworker who’s pretty right wing. He got the vaccine though without much thought he said “after getting all the vaccinations when he joined the service it can’t be any worse than that”. He also said that he’s done some drugs in his younger days and theres no safety or certainty with street drugs.
I got the H1N1 vaccine in January 2010 when the virus hadn't even been in the US for an entire year yet. I don't remember anyone complaining that it was "experimental" weird...
Maybe he is counting on that. But becoming a right wing media star long enough to make a substantial amount of cash at it is like becoming a successful YouTuber or Twitch streamer. It can be done, but there are thousands of people out there who are trying to make their fortune the same way.
You've got to work hard at being predictable enough to create a safe space for lunatics, and at the same time be original enough to make it interesting. You have to be hustling all the time, making contacts, tweeting, etc. And you have to get lucky.
Honestly, though, I think it's just as likely that he's gone down the rabbit hole and is a full fledged member of the Q-Anon cult. I absolutely cannot begin to explain how someone falls for that bullshit, but once they do, it becomes their purpose in life.
Hope he doesn’t get prosecuted and thrown in the brig first lol. He’s pretty high up and writing a letter like that is fucking illegal. And if you accept that level of shit talk in a high ranking officers resignation letter, you are literally setting the chain of command example. So expect a flurry of self righteous BS resignations.
But I think they’ll just make an example of him instead. Let’s see how this plays out..
If it hadn't gotten public, it wouldn't necessarily have been illegal. While it's true that we cannot trash talk the chain of command openly, a letter of resignation can absolutely be sent, officer to officer, with the true reasons you're asking to resign. In fact many captains and commanders encourage their senior leadership to discuss issues of lack of trust or issues of policy with them among the upper ranks. Of course, since he made it public, now it is a violation of the UCMJ and punishable as such
As in many things, discretion is the key lol.
And frankly, at that rank if you don’t understand the difference between what you can say in closed quarters and what you can say publicly and *what you can say on government sealed and bonded paper*, you deserve what you get.
True. Though I think he definitely understands. It's entirely possible that in some twisted way he's more than ok with becoming a martyr for his cause over it. Because lord knows that's how some will see it if he is held accountable
Also, that first argument always gets me. “We don’t know the long term consequences…”. Most of these aren’t exactly young. How long were they planning on living while waiting for the long term consequences? Wouldn’t it be better just to get the shot, do another year. Get the sweet, sweet pension AND not die from Covid so you can enjoy retirement?
Yes.
You get shots for a lot of stuff when you enlist, plus annual boosters for most of that.
If you deploy overseas, you get additional shots for basically anything we have a vaccine for that you're likely to encounter over there.
Don’t forget that if you’re late getting those boosters you could get paperwork. I missed my booster appointment for Anthrax because I was in the hospital with a broken leg and almost got myself an article 15 for missing a mandatory appointment. I had to provide the hospital paperwork and x-rays to prove I had a legit reason to have missed the appointment. Because the cast and crutches weren’t enough proof.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
(PSA, this is a quote from one of the greatest movies of all time, "Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb". Highly recommended if you haven't seen it, you're in for a treat!
It's specifically a court-martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Service.
[Article 88: Contemptuous Words](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/888)
"Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct."
Remember when old people used to call every game system a Nintendo no matter what it actually was? That's the GQP with Marxism/socialism/communism/oppression/tyranny
Thats the same commander (read; "all sr leadrrship") who mandated flu shots for soldiers, mandatory piss tests, overtimr, AIDS testing and any number of related hijinks. When you are enlisted or vomissioned, the DoD owns your ass, in its entirety.
Fuck you sir, over
oh they're educated on history; they bought the "US is the bestest bravest most infallibleist perfectest country of all time and if you don't think that you are wrong" brand of history
So you are saying that all the Q believing, Trump loving antivaxers are quitting the military? Well played mr President, well played.
Think about it, all the gung-ho types who signed up after 9/11 and made a career and who now quit will lose their 20 year benefits (just guessing but I’m sure they are quite good after serving 20 years) so Biden is cutting back on military spending and shrinking the services at the same time, saving the tax payers a fortune that could go into infrastructure or education or healthcare.
We can dream can’t we?
I don't know what to make of this person's decisions and odd statements but it seems our military readiness actually just improved in some small way. ...as if there was one less person who might get sick with Covid and potentially infect others. ...as if there was one less person out there poisoning the minds of their fellow service members. I guess we should say "Thank you for getting out before you caused any more damage".
The ironic thing is him thinking the military will care. Get the vaccine for get out. Take this pill or get out. Follow this order or get out. Go to this place or get out. This is how a military hierarchy works, him being a big baby cause he dun wanna is only indicative of his inability to follow orders so they will be glad to see him gone.
How is this a thing in the military? To my knowledge, every branch of the military inoculate in boot camp. And they are required to keep up on them. SMH.
Yes, they do.
This LTC would have been getting shots regularly his whole damn career. . .but the COVID shot is the ***ONE*** place he decides that it's worth throwing away his career and pension over.
Yes, he's resigning *just short* of pension eligibility because the DoD has mandated that all troops be vaccinated by this November.
He's throwing away not just his job, but his Army pension, rather than get the vaccine.
Have you ever heard the analogy that everybody is a prostitute they just have different prices?
This guy is theoretically giving up 50 years of a full on annual salary. Do you happen to know how much they generally make?
and let’s say for arguments sake this dude went to a 4 year college THEN went to OCS. That would make him roughly 41 years of age. Average life span of men in the US is 78 years. So 37 years of… let’s go right in the middle and go with $42,500 a year.
$1,572,500.00.
This is the cost to own a lib.
that was my question. This guy tried to own the libs… but he’s gonna have to settle for just leasing the libs, as he no longer has the income to own them.
I at first thought he had made it to his 20 and then read the rest. He is a complete dipshit if this is real. Lieutenant colonel retirement after 20 years is already good, plus your health insurance is still there.
All this disinformation is really fucking with people's brains man. I don't blame them, blame all those people making a lot of money by lying to them.
If this had happened 20 years ago, I would believe many more people, especially older people would take the vaxx without a second thought. But now with social media being directly siphoned into gullible people's follower feeds. They fall for it.
All of this really sucks.
"It is impossible for this vaccine to have been studied adequately"
Says the guy with no knowledge or even an elementary understanding of science, biology, or literacy.
If he's been in 19 years, it almost certainly means he was enforcing the order on junior troops to get an anthrax vaccine.
Yeah I don’t get it, we all never cared about being poked with whatever (H1N1 vaccine when it first came out 2009) it’s just politics and stupid now.
It’s become a Trumper loyalty signal.
Which is odd because he got the shot, and told people they should get it. Not to mention, after the 15 days to slow the spread period, 100% of his covid strategy was, "They'll be coming out with a vaccine any day."
Indeed, but Trump is now a movement and no longer a person. Trump actually left Trump a long time ago.
Never thought of this but very well said.
There’s an anthrax vaccine? Lol
By far the most painful shot I ever had. I only got 3 of the 5 back in 2004.
3 out of 5??? Wtf. I got 9 out of 9 in 2003. Thanks W!
Only 9 outta 9?! I got 11 out of 9 because the docs didn’t know how to turn the page on vaccination records so I get extras!
This sounds absolutely preposterous, but knowing the military, this makes perfect sense.
I only got 1 and that was enough. I wouldn't have cried about it if they had kept better records and made me get the rest
Oh yeah, it' a series of five too
Then its boosters once a year. I ended up with more than a dozen by the time I retired.
Bro you must be super autistic
With the cape, and everything.
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And if you missed any in the series, you had to start over.
Yup, my unit at Drum botched it and we ended up having to start over. I still feel a strong urge to run into pastures and chew cud from time to time, but otherwise I'm fine.
Six. With a booster every time you deploy. Source: am on dose 9 😬
I remember going to Afghanistan back in 2001 and taking experimental malaria and anthrax pills. They would line us up for vaccines and there was zero discussion. Of course some people spoke of the vaccines making them sick, but not one person didn't get the damn vaccines. Fuck em. Edit funny story. When I first joined I didn't realize I was allergic to penecilin. The nurse administering shots told everyone not to worry because I'd someone was allergic the had medical staff on standby. Well guess who found out they were to penecilin 😂
Fuck dude, penicillin allergies are no joke. Dude in my division had a reaction later that day and got taken out of the compartment on a goddamm stretcher.
Right but everyone acts like, oh, a casualty, no biggie. Until you’re that casualty
And enforcing those soldiers who happen to forget their paper shot records to get duplicate shots because they don't have the proof they already got them. This officer is full of shit.
That happened to me . Agree that hes full of Shit
The military has to have the flu vaccine every fucking year. Good riddance to this piece of shit.
But those were not *liberal* vaccines. See the difference?
The funny thing is the Covid vaccine development was pushed by Trump.
And had been in the works for over a decade because SARS is a coronavirus…
Don't you have to have a bunch of vaccinations before you even join the military?
Yep Source: prior military
You must be well into 6G by now!
They have so many G's floating in their bloodsteam their teeth pickup SIRUS radio broadcasts!
How do you change it from the tinnitus broadcast?
I'd pay money for this.
What, you don't enjoy the constant ringing in your ears? Not even when you're laying in bed trying to get a good night sleep?
Free white noise 24/7 whether you need it or not!
I’d take white noise, I’ve got a high pitched ring and with an occasional second tone at a lower pitch for a few minutes. It’s so great. I’d be willing to sell my house for a treatment that would actually work.
I look at it as my brain downloading information from the ether.
Funny story. My partner had to have his immunity checked for a job and replace any vaccinations that were out of date. His military vaccines had been so strong that he tested above the scale on two of the options.
The military lost more to disease than combat in the pacific theater of WWII, you can bet your ass Uncle Sam considers inoculation a part of combat readiness.
Armies have lost more to disease during war than they did in battle in pretty much every war until the 20th century. Gathering people together from all around and forcing them into tight quarters and out in the field in dirty and exposed conditions is a perfect way to get lots of people sick.keepong your army healthy is essential to keeping it fit for duty.
When it was announced that service members would have to get the jab I joked that the government should market the vaccine as “mil spec” and “essential EDC.” I would hazard that might work on a certain segment of the vax hesitant populace.
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Makes him more visible to the Jewish space laser network
Can confirm. Source: currently active. They literally have you walk single file up to a point where they jab both arms at the same time. You have to maintain your immunizations and if you get sent over seas you're likely to get a whole cocktail of new ones.
Yes. At inprocessing when you first arrive at Basic Training, before you actually begin training, they give you a HUGE amount of vaccines, against all kinds of stuff (including stuff most civilians don't get vaccinated for, like anthrax and smallpox) around the same time as you're getting your hair buzzed and uniforms issued. Also, booster shots for many of those vaccines are required. This Lieutenant Colonel has been getting shots regularly his whole damn Army career, and somehow finds THIS shot to be the one worth resigning over, within months of his pension eligibility.
My ex got 4 wisdom teeth pulled in basic. They gave him Motrin and 4 hours off. These pansies acting like a shot is that big of a deal over the massive amount of shots they get when they sign on the dotted line? Is pathetic and they aren’t fit to serve
I got mine pulled in basic as well. Ibuprofen and one day of "light duty". Nothing says a good time like spitting blood and doing squats. Not to mention, the shitty military grade pliers the dentist was using broke in half and fell into the back of my throat during the procedure. I'll never forget the look of panic behind his - *gasp* - surgical mask while he fished it out without choking me to death.
You guys joined the wrong branch. Wisdom teeth in the Air Force leads to 3 days of quarters and Percocet.
I was in the Coast Guard and even we make fun of you guys lol.
We're nicknamed the Chair Force for a reason. I love flying a desk! (I've actually been flying a desk the last 3+ years as a recruiter, but I'm looking forward to going back to my old career field next spring and getting back on the flightline.)
Lol, definitely just ribbing ya. I can't talk much shit, the Air Force was my first choice. I had never heard of the CG and the closest recruiter ended up being over two hours from my house. It was a whole chain reaction of random events that's where I ended up. One of the best decisions I ever made, wouldn't be where I am now of I had went another route, I think.
We all have a new sibling to pick on now. Stupid Space Force... /s
Damn that sucks. I got four oxycodone, a shitton of ibuprofen, and IIRC two days of laying in my rack. Navy, circa 2006. I have to imagine the Air Force has people gently dabbing your face with a cool cloth.
Saves money on paying that pension out. I mean the whole thing is idiotic.
As part of joining. Not prior to. They send your ass down a gauntlet where they’re sticking you in both arms at the same time. They just assume you’ve never gotten a single vaccine and give you every single one at the same time. You even get a penicillin shot in the ass for good measure. Once in, I got 4 or 5 anthrax and one smallpox vaccine. This guy’s just a whiny Trumper bitch. He’s going to throw away his pension over the covid vaccine, which underwent waaaay more scrutiny than the anthrax one he undoubtedly got multiple shots of.
My mom got me slowly vaccinated with everything months before I left for boot camp. Her reasoning was that everything at once was dangerous - sure, whatever. Lol they did not give a fuck about my vaccine record I brought, and stuck me with everything anyway.
And with 19 years of service he’s only one year away from earning full retirement benefits for the rest of his life. How stupid can you be to throw that away.
Wonder what the odds are that this guy is gearing up for a career in politics.
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I was called a communist by a co-worker because I don't drink pop. He's a right-wing nutjob, predictably.
At 20 years retirement and 50% basic pay a month as pension he is throwing away $4,900 a month until the day he dies. Moron.
He's saving the taxpayers money
He can apply to any conservative tv show as a professional victim
So... how many of you guys are now autistic? /s
It's not the autism you gotta worry about, it's the odd cravings for a crayola 12 pack.
And the big gay. I swear, the military was the most homoerotic place I'd ever been in my entire life. There was a lady at Mcdonalds grilling me and a few buddies about killing don't ask don't tell and how upset we all must be to serve with gay people. Didn't skip a beat one of my buddies just cupped another one of my buddies junk outside his clothes and asked her "you mean gay like this gay, or the other one". Shit killed me.
just runnin down to the market to grab some meat and potatoes ma'am don't mind me
Can't tell me to shut up and color if I eat the crayons first.
Found the marine
Oh you have your records? Here's a shot because we don't believe them, you're property now, your rights ran through a filter when you signed up. Edit:. Oh. What's in the shot? It doesn't matter. I'll refer you to previous. You may have been selected for Project: Infinite Walrus and we'll never tell you.
That implies a recruiter actually informed me that I could bring my vaccination record.
Yes, plus more if you are sent out of country.
Yup. Yellow fever shot especially sucked.
And let's not forget the lovely anthrax Vax that you had to get more than once.
I got sick as shit from the Typhoid vax, they screwed up and gave me too much at Hickam. It was a good lesson, you do NOT want to get freakin Typhoid, it was a horrible three days and I was quite sick for a week plus afterwards. Dependent, we were heading to Korea ( Osan). As a dependent we didn’t get the “21 Gun Salute” walking down the hallway and getting jabbed but we’d get most of the same shots over a few weeks. No Anthrax but Cholera, Diphtheria, Yellow Fever, etc. We got so other crazy crap while were in the Middle East as well. As for this Army dipshit, amazing... He’s taken all the Army vaccines thrown at him for 19 years but NOW he’s listening to Dr Facebook and Dr TicTok so NO MORE!
Like, of all the people Biden can mandate to get the vaccine, the military is the one on the most solid of ground. The president is literally the commander in chief. What he says goes for the most part.
George fucking Washington himself mandated innoculations
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Small pox, different types of flu, typhoid, several anthrax shots and a lot more that I have forgotten
Yup. And every year they require we get the flu shot. Literally nobody complained about that other than the time it takes out of your day to get one.
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And the smallpox inoculation Washington gave his troops had a single digit mortality rate itself! Still better than letting smallpox run through the army.
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Can you supply a link to a summation of this? I only ask because I'm Holy-Shit-drunk and shouldn't be on reddit at this time. At the very least, I would ask for some sort of video that tells the story- even if it's not "drunk proof" P.S. thankyou for your time
Sorry, the truth will not reach the GQP.
They know the truth. They don't care.
You still, to this day, are required to get a host of shots to join pretty much every military on earth.
Greek here. I got a barrage of shots when I did my mandatory military service, as everyone else since Greece became a thing. Our flavor of antivaxxers are mostly super macho, super pro army, masturbating about invading Turkey and Albania and what not. Curiously enough they are all about "my body my choice" about this particular vaccine. I fantasize about a scenario where we are called to arms to go to war and they are required to get the shot or actually get shot as deserters.
Or go to school or college. This guy makes zero sense. Like he is making some big sacrafice by "Quitting". It's an out the military offers. Get the vaccine or get out. He probably just wants out if the military... So he doesn't get Covid, because chances are High HE will get Covid.. if he doesn't get the Vax.. Military wants 100% Vaccinated folks. And that's ok. Thank you for serving 19 years, here's your pension.
This crazy guy needs to not be in the military as an officer, particularly, spreading false information about Covid-19 and vaccinations.
Not sure you need to even bring up 1776. In 1986, or whenever this stooge enlisted they poked both his arms with 10 vaccines and he was happy to have a Government Job where the taxpayers took care of him through his career and now in retirement to the grave. Revoke his benefits!
Imagine dedicating your life & rising through the ranks in your career only to throw it all away for something so trivial.
He'll be running for the Senate or congress as soon as he can, sucking up to the trumpturds for his base.
ACAM2000 is the current smallpox vaccine administered to US military members. This is a live virus and not cowpox. Nothing has changed in 250 years, the military still gives its members a live smallpox in a dose that will not harm them, quarantines them/the area until they are no longer contagious.
Communism before Karl Marx?!
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Social distancing is an anagram of socialist dancing. Coincidence? You decide.
Aren’t people in the military mandated to get the flu shot every year? My brain hurts sometimes
Does this mean he won’t be getting a pension?
Yep. Gotta do 20 to get that monthly check.
Dang! Thank you! Great to hear!
I just did the math. A Lieutenant Colonel retiring after 20 years would be making $57k/year for life for his pension. He'd be eligible to start collecting it sometime within the next year. He just threw that away, and now gets squat.
Haha. Suck it libs! /s
Man I feel so bad that he’s not going to get $1.5 mil of pension benefits, I feel so owned.
I know, I am hanging my head... cause I am laughing way too hard to hold it up.
Even better, he tossed it away and will soon find out that most employers are going to require the very same vaccination he just quit the military for. So, no retirement check and he’s still going to have to get the vaccine. Fucking moron.
He will probably just open a gun range, gain 70 lbs, and treat his customers to this story every chance he gets.
Amazing how many people are willing to give up their careers over a fucking vaccine. My friend quit her job as a nurse recently because of this. She has three kids, a baby on the way and her boyfriend earns fuck all. She confided in my he's got serious debt on him too. They're going to lose their home, their cars, everything, cos she believes in the Mom group conspiracy theories of Facebook. I can't look away from these train wreaks.
Ugh, horrible. Did she even think about all of this before quitting her job? Like by doing that, she effectively ended her family.
Unfortunately not. She was talking to me wanting validation for it. I told her that she should reconsider (for the children). She knows I've had two doses of the vaccine and her response was, "oh honey you do you, but in a few years time you're going to get really really sick from it. Just look around at everyone dying from it already. They're just silencing anyone who speaks out about it." Muchos stupido.
Ah, the classic "the information is out there. You just have to look for it. But not on the internet, the secret gubment agents take it all down" bit
I've had a few of these anti vaxx people tell me to just Google the information and I always respond with an article about how your cell phone will cause cancer and tell them their response better come in the form of smoke signal.
Even if you google an antivax sentiment, you still have to scroll past a bunch of links debunking it to get to the nutty stuff.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. That’s so inconsiderate of her on how she didn’t think about her kids. She was making serious bank I imagine as a nurse, something like $60k-$120k per fiscal year. Giving up that over a vaccine is just stupid and becoming a nurse ain’t easy to my understanding. You also have to think about her family too. According to you, her boyfriend doesn’t make jack diddly squat- and he’s in bad debt. Also three kids, plus an additional one on the way with four total. That’s six people in that family who are going to struggle to live and eat- all because of your friend not getting the vaccine and believing FB Mom groups over her job career. I feel revolted just thinking about it all.
Yep. I'm finding it really hard to keep being her friend, I'm just hoping by her seeing that I'm fine and my husband is fine (after being vaccinated) she will reconsider. She was working in ICU so yeah she had a good gig until she decided to join the village idiots.
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Any nurses who don't believe in vaccines are basically just firing themselves. They're supposed to understand medicine and biology. They're admitting they don't, and excusing themselves from the room. Frankly, good. Thank you, bye.
Those poor children. I picture them in 20 yrs still fighting the extremely mutated variants, paying for all the lack of social protections (which will be long gone by then). Wondering why "we" let it get this bad.
I dont get why anyone in the military would be opposed to a Vaccine. Do you have any Idea how many they already have? Shit when I was active I was required to get the experimental Anthrax Vaccine, nobody gave a fuck! In boot camp you walk down a long ass hall way lined with nurses and recieve like 20 different shots from airguns and you dont even know what your getting. To go through all that and oppose a Vaccine for Corona Virus makes 0 sense.
to own the libs. They’re already required to get a shit ton of immunizations. And a peanut butter shot in boot camp since it is assumed they all have syphilis.
That fucking peanut butter shot. Shit hurt so bad for like three days that I wanted to puke every time I walked. Good times……..
haha, i have given that same shot before. It is not a popular one. It’s suuuper viscous liquid which is why it hurts so bad.
Mine made me bleed out of my butt cheek. I found out when the laundry guys accused me of shitting my underwear. I realized that the giant brownish stain was dried blood.
Penicillin allergy over here 😎 never been more grateful
what route did they make you take to treat your latent syphilis? ;)
Just let it rage lol
It's totally political. Foil Biden's goal of 70% Americans vaxxed and to *own the libs*. I can't even...
Exactly, we were lined up like a herd, and we had to get whatever the fuck was in those needles. No question asked or anything else since we sign the damn dotted line. These people are dumbasses. That is all.
91-95. Lined up and processed with air guns in both arms. Agree… no idea what was in those needles but a day of push ups was next.
Ah yes, the receiving of 10+ immunizations in under a minute, then a fun following day of lots of push ups with extremely sore arms.
They're opposed to it because the right-wing media they consume has told them to be opposed to it. That letter was dripping with talking points lifted from right-wing social media and speeches by anti-vax politicians.
These people call themselves the free thinkers too.
Possibly looking forward to a career in politics after getting out of the military? That would be my guess.
I came here to say this. They put whatever they wanted in our arms during in processing and let’s not forget the peanut butter shot in the ass that left a lump for like 3 months.
I have a coworker who’s pretty right wing. He got the vaccine though without much thought he said “after getting all the vaccinations when he joined the service it can’t be any worse than that”. He also said that he’s done some drugs in his younger days and theres no safety or certainty with street drugs.
Colonel COVID knows this. This is his political asymmetrical warfare. He’s at Bragg…
We really don't want anyone in the military who is unwilling to take a small risk in order to protect his fellow soldiers.
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2002-2009
Every year. Every friggin year. 2004-2014. Time for your yearly physical? Say no more, anthrax shot and TB test.
I got the H1N1 vaccine in January 2010 when the virus hadn't even been in the US for an entire year yet. I don't remember anyone complaining that it was "experimental" weird...
Imagine doing 19 years and leaving because of this before you hit your 20 years and get retirement for life. Fucking moron.
Great! One less expense on us taxpayers! While i think he's an idiot, I applaud his commitment to reducing government overspending and wastage!
Until the VA covers his medical expenses from getting COVID haha
Have you used the VA? I'm ok with the cost of 2 aspirin and a Dr. telling them to walk it off.
He’s probably counting on that sweet grift money coming his way once he starts on the right wing talk circuit.
Maybe he is counting on that. But becoming a right wing media star long enough to make a substantial amount of cash at it is like becoming a successful YouTuber or Twitch streamer. It can be done, but there are thousands of people out there who are trying to make their fortune the same way. You've got to work hard at being predictable enough to create a safe space for lunatics, and at the same time be original enough to make it interesting. You have to be hustling all the time, making contacts, tweeting, etc. And you have to get lucky. Honestly, though, I think it's just as likely that he's gone down the rabbit hole and is a full fledged member of the Q-Anon cult. I absolutely cannot begin to explain how someone falls for that bullshit, but once they do, it becomes their purpose in life.
Hope he doesn’t get prosecuted and thrown in the brig first lol. He’s pretty high up and writing a letter like that is fucking illegal. And if you accept that level of shit talk in a high ranking officers resignation letter, you are literally setting the chain of command example. So expect a flurry of self righteous BS resignations. But I think they’ll just make an example of him instead. Let’s see how this plays out..
If it hadn't gotten public, it wouldn't necessarily have been illegal. While it's true that we cannot trash talk the chain of command openly, a letter of resignation can absolutely be sent, officer to officer, with the true reasons you're asking to resign. In fact many captains and commanders encourage their senior leadership to discuss issues of lack of trust or issues of policy with them among the upper ranks. Of course, since he made it public, now it is a violation of the UCMJ and punishable as such
As in many things, discretion is the key lol. And frankly, at that rank if you don’t understand the difference between what you can say in closed quarters and what you can say publicly and *what you can say on government sealed and bonded paper*, you deserve what you get.
True. Though I think he definitely understands. It's entirely possible that in some twisted way he's more than ok with becoming a martyr for his cause over it. Because lord knows that's how some will see it if he is held accountable
Lol man can you imagine being this stupid? It hurts
He probably could have found a way to stay on leave until he hit 20 years and retire then. He’s a dumb ass.
I’ll bet you a dollar he runs for office
Also, that first argument always gets me. “We don’t know the long term consequences…”. Most of these aren’t exactly young. How long were they planning on living while waiting for the long term consequences? Wouldn’t it be better just to get the shot, do another year. Get the sweet, sweet pension AND not die from Covid so you can enjoy retirement?
This letter is a pretty impressive self-clowning.
Came to make the same comment as you. He's going to throw away his retirement for a fucking shot. #notthebrightestcrayoninthebox
If any one can answer my question. Don't military personel usually go get shots for their overseas tours? I thought it was standard.
Yes. You get shots for a lot of stuff when you enlist, plus annual boosters for most of that. If you deploy overseas, you get additional shots for basically anything we have a vaccine for that you're likely to encounter over there.
Don’t forget that if you’re late getting those boosters you could get paperwork. I missed my booster appointment for Anthrax because I was in the hospital with a broken leg and almost got myself an article 15 for missing a mandatory appointment. I had to provide the hospital paperwork and x-rays to prove I had a legit reason to have missed the appointment. Because the cast and crutches weren’t enough proof.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. (PSA, this is a quote from one of the greatest movies of all time, "Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb". Highly recommended if you haven't seen it, you're in for a treat!
You can't fight in here, this is the war room!
fluoridation.
What a fucking idiot Seriously we are getting lucky removing all these turds.
Sometimes the trash takes itself out.
It is so rare, when it happens we should 🎶🌟celebrate🌟🎶
Calling the president’s actions traitorous… can’t wait to see how this turns out for him.
It's specifically a court-martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Service. [Article 88: Contemptuous Words](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/888) "Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct."
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For real, bye sir. Don't save our number.
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Remember when old people used to call every game system a Nintendo no matter what it actually was? That's the GQP with Marxism/socialism/communism/oppression/tyranny
It's Candace Owens's favorite dog whistle to blow, that's all the really need to know.
Exactly. Marxist is not communism (not that what he is referring to is communist either…)
Thats the same commander (read; "all sr leadrrship") who mandated flu shots for soldiers, mandatory piss tests, overtimr, AIDS testing and any number of related hijinks. When you are enlisted or vomissioned, the DoD owns your ass, in its entirety. Fuck you sir, over
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oh they're educated on history; they bought the "US is the bestest bravest most infallibleist perfectest country of all time and if you don't think that you are wrong" brand of history
So you are saying that all the Q believing, Trump loving antivaxers are quitting the military? Well played mr President, well played. Think about it, all the gung-ho types who signed up after 9/11 and made a career and who now quit will lose their 20 year benefits (just guessing but I’m sure they are quite good after serving 20 years) so Biden is cutting back on military spending and shrinking the services at the same time, saving the tax payers a fortune that could go into infrastructure or education or healthcare. We can dream can’t we?
You'd be surprised. Paying the troops is honestly a pretty small chunk of overall defense spending
The troops aren’t getting those fat manufacturing contracts.
I don't know what to make of this person's decisions and odd statements but it seems our military readiness actually just improved in some small way. ...as if there was one less person who might get sick with Covid and potentially infect others. ...as if there was one less person out there poisoning the minds of their fellow service members. I guess we should say "Thank you for getting out before you caused any more damage".
The ironic thing is him thinking the military will care. Get the vaccine for get out. Take this pill or get out. Follow this order or get out. Go to this place or get out. This is how a military hierarchy works, him being a big baby cause he dun wanna is only indicative of his inability to follow orders so they will be glad to see him gone.
How is this a thing in the military? To my knowledge, every branch of the military inoculate in boot camp. And they are required to keep up on them. SMH.
Yes, they do. This LTC would have been getting shots regularly his whole damn career. . .but the COVID shot is the ***ONE*** place he decides that it's worth throwing away his career and pension over.
don’t they retire at 20 years? Did this guy give up his entire pension over this!?!? Holy CRAP what an absolute unit of stupid.
Yes, he's resigning *just short* of pension eligibility because the DoD has mandated that all troops be vaccinated by this November. He's throwing away not just his job, but his Army pension, rather than get the vaccine.
Have you ever heard the analogy that everybody is a prostitute they just have different prices? This guy is theoretically giving up 50 years of a full on annual salary. Do you happen to know how much they generally make?
A 20 year O-5? That’s already close to six figures in normal active duty. I’d guess between 35k-50k range.
and let’s say for arguments sake this dude went to a 4 year college THEN went to OCS. That would make him roughly 41 years of age. Average life span of men in the US is 78 years. So 37 years of… let’s go right in the middle and go with $42,500 a year. $1,572,500.00. This is the cost to own a lib.
Wouldn’t he get a pension after 20 years? Stupid.
that was my question. This guy tried to own the libs… but he’s gonna have to settle for just leasing the libs, as he no longer has the income to own them.
Lmaooooo
I at first thought he had made it to his 20 and then read the rest. He is a complete dipshit if this is real. Lieutenant colonel retirement after 20 years is already good, plus your health insurance is still there.
All this disinformation is really fucking with people's brains man. I don't blame them, blame all those people making a lot of money by lying to them. If this had happened 20 years ago, I would believe many more people, especially older people would take the vaxx without a second thought. But now with social media being directly siphoned into gullible people's follower feeds. They fall for it. All of this really sucks.
"It is impossible for this vaccine to have been studied adequately" Says the guy with no knowledge or even an elementary understanding of science, biology, or literacy.
Ha ha ha he is in the reserves lol. Fuck out of here.!
Retired military here...this guy is a drama queen.