The Department of Defense is slowly rehiring service personnel who were fired for refusing to submit for the COVID-19 vaccine. Nearly 8,000 were released by the department over that issue.
The current number of service members in the process of reinstatement is around 100, according to reporting in Breitbart. Only 13 have been returned to service since the process opened up. About 700 more have expressed interest but are not in an active reinstatement mode.
President Donald Trump ordered the department to review the options for those fired over the vaccine in a January 27 Executive Order. Trump said the decision by the Biden administration to fire non-vaccinated personnel was wrong. “The military unjustly discharged those who refused the vaccine, regardless of the years of service given to our Nation, after failing to grant many of them an exemption that they should have received.”
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