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| Losing the US Navy SEALs? |
| 2021-09-24 |
| [American Thinker] So is Joe Biden ready to lose the U.S. Navy SEALs? Sure looks like it, based on this JustTheNews report: Several hundred elite Navy SEALs are in danger of being blocked from deploying with their special operator teams by the Pentagon after failing to get a mandatory COVID vaccine, according to a lawyer and pastor counseling them. The number involved in the dispute with the Pentagon amounts to as many as a quarter or more of all active duty SEALs, a loss that could impact military readiness since SEAL teams play an outsized role in modern military operations, their advocates told Just the News. If so, that's bad news for military readiness. We all know what happens to military readiness when the Navy loses a ship — imagine the impact of losing a huge chunk of the elite fighting force. And in the wake of Biden's failed Afghanistan pullout, with terrorists the world over regrouping, there could be consequences for the U.S. JustTheNews notes that it costs $500,000 to train a SEAL. There's also the reality that only one out of four SEAL applicants actually makes it through training to get the title of SEAL; the rest wash out. They're not called an elite fighting force for nothing. What's more, they are very popular with the public, having taken down Osama bin Laden and other terrorist monsters to protect our country. Biden wants to get rid of that? Now, to be fair, there are sound reasons for asking troops to get vaxxed. One unvaxxed troop spreading disease to the others on the tightly packed Navy ship or submarine is no laughing matter, particularly since the vaccine itself isn't preventing breakthrough infections. But there are valid reasons for objecting, too. Taking the vaccine, for one, might actually be making troops more vulnerable, if the example of hyper-vaxxed Israel is taken into account. Some troops may object to taking the vaccine based on that, and others may object based on the record these vaccines have of triggering heart problems in young people, particularly healthy young men such as themselves. Compared to the low lethality of having COVID among the healthy young, taking a vaccine with those life-altering potential results seems stupid. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Can you say, kabuki? I knew you could |
| Posted by: Nero Creaper7205 2021-09-24 12:48 |
| #8 Trying to get all but the woke out of the military. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2021-09-24 12:38 |
| #7 Now, I DO wish I had resisted my Yellow Fever vax. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-24 08:21 |
| #6 #5 /\ Ditto Mike. Numbers reductions possibly, not entire unit eliminations. Keeping the flag will allow continued POM budget line entry and funding. Gotta keep the funding flow, a few ghost soldiers holding the flag should work. Besoeker, The force reduction angle is one I hadn't considered, but one that makes a lot of sense - the USN has been looking to trim its special ops forces for a while now; they had to expand them far beyond any reasonable limit because they were the most effective forces we had in the AF and Iraq...which meant that people got in who ordinarily shouldn't have. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-09-24 08:20 |
| #5 /\ Ditto Mike. Numbers reductions possibly, not entire unit eliminations. Keeping the flag will allow continued POM budget line entry and funding. Gotta keep the funding flow, a few ghost soldiers holding the flag should work. The Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of October 1986 gave SOF a separate budget line (not included in Big Army, Big Navy, etc.) Much easier for the Klingon's to manipulate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-24 06:13 |
| #4 ....Ummm, no. This is easily the third or fourth 'report' I've seen in the last week or so saying that (Fill in the name of elite group here)was going to be in deep trouble because of vaccine refusals. My favorite was the alleged middle-of-the-night text from SECDEF to all F-22 pilots that they had a couple days to get vaxxed or else. These are men who have achieved the pinnacle of military readiness and reputation. They have gotten shots for things we've never even heard of, and done so uncomplainingly. Even if this were somehow true, the line of men more than willing to get the shot and replace them would stretch for a hundred yards or more. If this were to have shown up on even Fox News, I would say there might be some truth to it. JustTheNews? Justtheno. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-09-24 06:07 |
| #3 Swamp actively blocking and suppressing Arizona audit at every opportunity. The fix is in just as with Hunters laptop. Shows how much corruption is so pervasive. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-09-24 06:02 |
| #2 Yeah? I’ve been hearing about the Arizona audit results coming out any day now for a couple of months. I’ll believe it when I see it. |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 2021-09-24 04:59 |
| #1 Today the Arizona election audit comes out and that makes everything pivotal if the company that did it is not corrupt like most of today's America is these days. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-09-24 03:04 |