National Guard deployed to enforce vaccine mandate on National Guard
Always ready, always there with an inoculation.
By Bad Lawyer
President Joe Biden announced today he will deploy the National Guard to enforce the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate on the National Guard.
“One of the many missions of the National Guard is to assist in domestic disasters,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. “And what constitutes more of a domestic disaster one weekend a month and two weeks per year than the current level of unvaccinated National Guard members? Deploying the Guard to assist in getting them vaccinated just makes sense.”
Since Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced vaccines would be required for all active-duty troops, the U.S. military branches have had varying success in getting its members vaccinated, with the National Guard coming in dead last at -7.3%.
“I wasn’t gonna get vaccinated, but first sergeant said I wouldn’t be able to go on this deployment without it,” said Spc. Mike Hennigan, a machine gunner with the Alabama National Guard. “Guess those crafty buggers outfoxed me again.”
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