Whatever you think of the "vaccines", you should at least respect these airmen for following through on their moral convictions. I find it as pathetic as it is predictable that the relatively few press outlets who covered this story failed to acknowledge the moral courage of these men, but rather sought to diminish their importance by quoting only Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said "all of them were in their first term of enlistment, so they were younger, lower-ranking personnel." In other words, their life's dream was to serve in the Air Force and they had to give it up for the convictions not long after they joined. .
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Even worse is the transparently dishonest characterization of this purge as normal by comparing these heroes to common order violators.
It is not unusual for members of the military to be thrown out of the service for disobeying an order; discipline is a key tenet of the armed services. As a comparison, Stefanek said that in the first three quarters of 2021, about 1,800 airmen were discharged for failure to follow orders.
Of those 1,800, how many involved a group of airmen being discharged for refusing to follow an order out of moral conviction? Comparing these courageous airmen to those who are discharged for common order violations strikes me as spiteful and inappropriate.
In 1968, 43 soldiers from Fort Hood refused to be deployed to repress peace demonstrations at home.
I am no military history buff and I don't know if there have been other similar events. I think it is pretty safe to guess however, that we will soon be eclipsing the 43 order-refusers of 1968 in a mass defiance of orders event that will eventually lead to the largest discharge of soldiers in modern times.
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