The U.S National Guard is about to get a lot smaller because according to the most recent estimates. Approximately 40,000 National Guard troops and 700 military pilots are currently facing getting discharged from the military due to the vaccine mandate.
And according to data collected by the AP, approximately 20% to 30% of Guard soldiers in six states remain unvaccinated.
This type of situation is playing itself out not only in the U.S National Guard but also across all other branches of the military as well.
And across the Department Of Defense, more than 700 pilots who are on active duty are unvaccinated.
In this interview, Roman Balmakov sat down with First Lieutenant John Bowes, an Air Force F16 fighter pilot in training, who is set to be discharged from the service for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Bowes comes from a family of Air Force pilots and spent his entire life preparing for the honor of serving his country as an aviator, only to be sidelined from training for his refusal to succumb to a vaccine mandate over Bowes’s deeply-held religious beliefs that prevent him from taking the vaccine.
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