About 10,000 Unvaccinated Marines About to Be Cut

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Up to 10,000 active-duty Marines will not be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus when their deadline arrives in coming days, a trajectory expected to yield the U.S. military’s worst immunization rate, WaPo reports.

While 94 percent of Marine Corps personnel have met the vaccination requirement or are on a path to do so, according to the latest official data, for the remainder it is too late to begin a regimen and complete it by the service’s Nov. 28 deadline.

They will join about 9,600 Air Force personnel who refused the vaccine or did not report their status or sought an exemption.

“Marines know they’re an expeditionary force, and pride themselves on discipline and being first to fight,” said David Lapan, a retired Marine Corps officer, and former communications chief for the service. Leadership, he said, should be alarmed that the Marine Corps ethos of always being ready for the next mission appears to be tarnished in this case. “Why,” Lapan asked, “did they decide not to follow a direct order?”

The Marines’ top general, Commandant David H. Berger, and his senior enlisted adviser, Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, distributed a video message to the force imploring those who had not been vaccinated to get it done. They appealed to Marines’ sense of fidelity and calmly explained that the Marine Corps would be less capable unless everyone met the requirement.

“When something bad happens around the world and the president says, ‘I need to know how long it’s going to take to get Marines there,’ it’s too late then to get vaccinated,” Berger said in the video.

“It’s challenging for us to be able to continue the mission,” Black added, “if we’re not ready to go.”

Berger spoke last: “We need every single Marine in the unit to be vaccinated. We don’t have extra Marines. We’re a pretty small force, and we have to make sure that everybody on the team is ready to go all the time. That’s our job.”

The Marine Corps is the U.S. military’s least-populous branch of service. Numbering about 183,000, it’s roughly one-third the size of the active-duty Army but fills a significant role.

They are trained to be the first in.

This feeds into the Democrat goal of thinning the ranks. They don’t believe in defense as we have repeatedly seen.


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John Vieira
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John Vieira
2 years ago

Wonder if there are ANY Marines left ( after the ‘unvaxxed’ are decommissioned) or ONLY SS…

Papa Bear
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Papa Bear
2 years ago

Those numbers are way too low. If the total number of unvaccinated is indeed 367,000 then there are a lot more military members who are on the bubble.

Bastogne Nuts
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Bastogne Nuts
2 years ago

Easy peasy for the CCP hostile takeover.
CPUSA=CCP quisling traitors.