The other day, a reporter from the Daily Mail reached out to me to get my thoughts on the mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations that our active-duty service members will be forced to take and I gave her my thoughts.
Here’s what I said:
“As someone who raised my right hand, wore the uniform, and served for five years including combat duty in Iraq, I think a vaccine mandate for soldiers is deeply wrong and an invasion on the civil liberties of Americans. However, once people raise their hands and take that oath they are, in fact, as much property of the U.S. Military as any weapon, tank, or ship. So they don’t really have a choice. I just wish our leaders valued freedom instead of tyranny.”
The question of mandatory vaccines for service members is a complicated one. On one hand, I’m completely against it, on the other, I’m not entirely sure that people understand that when you take the oath to serve in the U.S. Military, you’re pretty much their property. I wish that the leaders of our military weren’t so nakedly partisan in their push for this vaccine on undoubtedly healthy young men and women who may not need it.
My position on the COVID-19 vaccine has always been: if you want it, take it, but if you don’t want it, you shouldn’t be forced to take it. I’m saddened that the “leaders” in today’s military have decided to force this vaccine on our troops.
