Reservist sidelined over COVID vax mandate thinks reversal tied to sagging recruitment

Would you join an organization that says either take a dangerous untested drug, that is known to cause harm to the heart of young men?  Do you want the organization to tell you how to live—and die—even if the leadership is supporting our enemy, believes in racism and can not tell the difference between men and women.

“Brandi King, who only learned she had been promoted to full colonel in April after Just the News asked the Air Force Reserve Command for her status last week, told “Just the News, No Noise” Tuesday she would be “unbelievably shocked” if anyone connected to her “decides to sign up” for military service, knowing how she was treated.

King was involuntarily transferred into the Non-Participating Individual Ready Reserve last year, meaning she no longer had an active status in the Reserve and couldn’t participate in drills or receive orders, pay or retirement. She had to fully pay her own life insurance premiums as well.

She agrees with mandate critics that the military’s sudden reversal, inviting discharged servicemembers to come back, is related to plunging recruitment numbers that followed the vaccine mandate. 

Will women be willing to join the military KNOWING they could be forced to share showers and bathrooms with men, who claim to be women?

Reservist sidelined over COVID vax mandate thinks reversal tied to sagging recruitment

Brandi King, promoted to full colonel after two-year battle, believes sudden reversal by military to members who refused the jab “has to be” a response to poor recruitment numbers.e likelihood of former troops reenlisting after DOD drops COVID mandateAir Force Reservist Col. Brandi King says she believes the Pentagon will continue to struggle to reinstitute former soldiers who were discharged for refusing to receive the COVID vaccine. Col. King explains why she thinks it will be harder to reenlist former service members who view their unlawful removal as conflicting with their Creator-endowed rights.

By Greg Piper, Just the News,   11/25/23  https://justthenews.com/government/security/i-would-be-shocked-reservist-sidelined-challenging-covid-vax-mandate-glum

An Air Force reservist who fought a two-year battle for reinstatement after seeking religious and medical exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate has a glum outlook on armed services recruitment numbers.

Brandi King, who only learned she had been promoted to full colonel in April after Just the News asked the Air Force Reserve Command for her status last week, told “Just the News, No Noise” Tuesday she would be “unbelievably shocked” if anyone connected to her “decides to sign up” for military service, knowing how she was treated.

King was involuntarily transferred into the Non-Participating Individual Ready Reserve last year, meaning she no longer had an active status in the Reserve and couldn’t participate in drills or receive orders, pay or retirement. She had to fully pay her own life insurance premiums as well.

She agrees with mandate critics that the military’s sudden reversal, inviting discharged servicemembers to come back, is related to plunging recruitment numbers that followed the vaccine mandate. 

“I don’t see how we could have gone through such persecution and alienation […] and then automatically, one day wake up” to be invited back, and even promoted, unless it’s “at least correlated to the lack of ability to recruit and retain retain,” King said.

She hopes her return will be “indicative of many people having another opportunity and a second chance to go in and serve should they decide to do so.”

But many separated members with the “utmost morals” have seen “people serving an institution instead of the Constitution” and are “probably potentially not going to want to reenter service to the institution” based on how “certain senior leaders” behaved in the past two years, she said.

King expects that former servicemembers will have to litigate to get back pay, but hopes the military will “just take the initiative” to pay them rather than “mandate a board of corrections for military records for every individual service member.”