… ‘experimentation’ on troops with COVID-19 vaccine mandate leaving ‘significant’ physical and mental scars
Over 200 active duty and retired service members are vowing to hold the Biden administration accountable for ‘trampling’ on their rights by enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The mandate enacted in August 2021 led to the forced firing of over 8,000 service members who refused the shot on religious or medical grounds.
On New Year’s Day, over 200 service members declared that they will do ‘everything’ in their power to get accountability since not a single leader has resigned or been held to account despite the rollback of the vaccine mandate last year.
In a letter obtained by DailyMail.com, the current and former troops accuse Biden’s military brass of ‘continuing to ignore’ their pleas to correct the ‘injuries and laws that were broken.’
They are threatening to even force Biden’s top leaders to be brought out of retirement so they can be court-martialed and held to account.
‘While implementing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military leaders broke the law, trampled constitutional rights, denied informed consent, permitted unwilling medical experimentation, and suppressed the free exercise of religion,’ the letter states.
Over 200 active duty and retired service members are vowing to hold the Biden administration accountable for ‘trampling’ on their rights by enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
On New Year’s Day, over 200 service members declared that they will do ‘everything’ in their power to get accountability since not a single leader has resigned or been held to account despite the rollback of the vaccine mandate
It goes on to say both service members and their families were ‘significantly harmed’ and their ‘suffering continues to be felt financially, emotionally, and physically.’
‘Some service members became part of our ever-growing veteran homeless population, some developed debilitating vaccine injuries, and some even lost their lives,’ the letter continues.
The mandate was eventually rescinded in the December 2022 defense authorization bill, but it did not reinstate service members who were fired for not receiving the shot nor provide any other compensation.
In the open letter, they explicitly name now-retired and still serving top commanders that they are demanding accountability from.
Those include the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley who exited the military in October and Gen. James McConville who served as the 40th chief of staff of the Army until 2023.
‘These individuals enabled lawlessness and the unwilling experimentation on service members,’ they state.
‘The moral and physical injuries they helped inflict are significant. They betrayed the trust of service members and the American people. Their actions caused irreparable harm to the Armed Forces and the institutions for which we have fought and bled.’
They have ‘refused to resign’ or take any accountability for their actions, the service members state.
The letter goes on to mutually pledge to hold them to account through ‘lawful word and action.’
It is signed by a handful of candidates who are running for Congress in 2024 including Mara Macie, a military spouse in Florida, and Cameron Hamilton in Virginia, a former Navy SEAL.
The Army recently was under scrutiny for attempting to win back favor with soldiers who were fired after declining the COVID-19 vaccine for religious or medical reasons, offering a ‘correction of military records.’
But the letter sparked an outcry of fury at the Defense Department by lawmakers and current and former service members who said there was always a process in place to do just that.
Since the mandate, Army has also faced a huge shortage of recruits in fiscal year 2022 at 55,000 – which was 10,000 short of its target for the year.
Congress is also working to further remedy the wrongs that these service members faced, but many soldiers have told DailyMail.com that it is just the start.
In the most recent National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed a year later in December 2023, there is a provision allowing former service members who were fired to change their discharge status.
But some current and former troops are saying that the amendments in the FY 2024 NDAA are not strong enough to undo the ‘serious harassment’ they endured over the last two years.
At 4am EST today (a few min ago), senior military leaders received an email with a letter attached called the Declaration of Military Accountability. I know because I sent the email. I sent it on behalf of myself & 230 other signatories of the letter. The letter is not addressed… pic.twitter.com/jFkF3FmcA8
— Brad Miller (@BradMiller1010) January 1, 2024
The letter goes on to mutually pledge to hold them to account through ‘lawful word and action’
The letter sparked an outcry of fury at the Defense Department by lawmakers and former service members
John Frankman, who was in the Special Forces as part of the Green Berets, said that the ‘missed career opportunities’ he endured over the last two years could never be undone by any action of Congress.
Another active-duty Army officer previously told DailyMail.com that the fired troops have had ‘their lives turned upside down and were betrayed by those charged with protecting them.’
And a formal apology from their service branches would be key to be able to have trust restored, he added.