Lt. Col. TOMMY WALLER, USMC (Ret.)
President, Center for Security Policy | Memo to the Senate
Save America’s Military
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military!
Lt. Col. Tommy Waller, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy (CSP, SecureFreedom.org) 2023, CSP Director of Infrastructure Security until 2021
Lt. Col. TOMMY WALLER
U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy
Our elected officials and particularly the US Senate, need to be paying particular attention to the damage done to the military by the vaccine mandate. This damage was done in really two ways. It's a moral injury and a potentially long-lasting medical injury.
To explain the moral injury, what our senators should be asking these generals is did they approve any administrative or medical exemptions? And the answer will most likely be yes. The next question should be, did they approve any religious accommodations? And the answer will most likely be no, because we know that all of the services had blanket denials for requests for religious accommodation. Not only did that inflict a moral injury upon the service members, upon the chaplains, the entire chain of command, but it was actually a violation of the law. In fact, a federal court ruled that it was a violation of the law in the case of the Navy SEALs versus Lloyd Austin. So that's one piece of it.
The second is the, again, potentially long-lasting medical injury. I'm in touch with doctors in the military right now that talk about this surge in all types of different medical issues following the vaccine mandate. We know for a fact that vaccines cause myocarditis which can be fatal. We know that some service members are actually even being discharged now for that condition. And in one case, a service member is seeking VA disability benefits for this myocarditis. And the VA is saying, no, it's not service connected.
So, what these generals should be asked is, is number one, will they ensure that the medical providers in the military underneath their chain of command actually look at and investigate whether or not medical issues could have stemmed from the vaccine mandate? Secondly, if there are documented medical issues that came from the vaccines, will they ensure that those are put into the service records for our military service members so that they can be treated while they're on active duty in the reserves or even as a veteran? And finally, will they seek truth and transparency when it comes to the data, the military's data, the medical data that we know is in the defense medical epidemiological database or deemed this data needs to be analyzed and there needs to be truth and transparency about it from before the vaccines through now?
And I would suggest to the senators that if the general officers that are asked these questions about both the moral and medical injuries associated with the mandate that they forced upon their subordinates, if the senators are unsatisfied with those answers, then those generals have no business being confirmed. In fact, they might ought to instead be investigated.