Oh, how much the times have changed!

The United States Army is now begging COVID unvaccinated soldiers, who underwent involuntary discharge for their refusal to take the vaccine, to return to service and also permits them to correct their military records!



Just two years ago, in a shameful campaign, the Pentagon was gleefully discharging soldiers who refused to take Covid vaccines:



https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/12/14/air-force-…

We were assured that these discharges would “not affect military readiness.”

“I can tell you there are no operational impacts across the force for readiness,” Marine Corps Lt. Gen. David Ottignon told lawmakers. “There’s no one community that has signaled an instance where a [leader], an NCO or another enlisted Marine is not present because of that.”
The Marine Corps has, by far, kicked out the most service members: 1,968 total, 20% of whom received an honorable discharge. That amounts to just under 1% of the total force, which stands at about 215,000.

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However, the readiness suffered: thousands of service members were dismissed, and potential recruits declined to enlist in the Armed Services, because, guess what, young healthy men loath COVID vaccines.

More than 17,000 service members balked at taking the shots, citing safety fears linked to the vaccine’s speedy development and spurred by misinformation about messenger ribonucleic acid technology, as well as concern over fetal cell lines used in formulation and testing. The more the controversy raged in the news, the more troops asked to skip the shots, Military Times reporting found.

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The COVID vaccine mandate removed three times as many servicemembers (8,339, see above) compared to the 2,402 soldiers tragically killed in Afghanistan. The involuntarily terminated soldiers were, of course, the best, the brightest, the healthiest, and most conscientious, who cared the most about their health.

Thousands were given career-destroying reprimands:

Lt. Col. Terry Kelley, a spokesman for the Army, said that 2,767 soldiers have received “general officer written reprimands” — killing their opportunities for promotions or transfers within the military — and that two battalion commanders as well as four other officers have been relieved of their duties but remain enlisted in the military.

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The leadership, sadly, stayed silent. (pictured here is Lloyd Austin)



As a result, the military is missing its recruitment goals by 25%:



COVID vaccinations and other reasons “caused [the army’s] end strength to fall from an original level of 485,000 in late 2021 to around 452,000 active duty soldiers today”.

Now, COVID vaccinations are all but forgotten, but the bitterness, nastiness, and senselessness of the mandates should be remembered. Remember how those dismissals were cheered by the media, such as the LA Times:





I am sorry about the destroyed careers of the best servicemembers. They kept their health — they will get military discharge papers corrected — but they will always remember the unfairness, the trauma, and the helplessness they felt as their commanders dismissed them for not taking experimental and non-working COVID vaccines.

Life is not fair; the soldiers have not been compensated, but they at least remained healthy and true to their principles.

Please appreciate how hard it was for those brave souls to stick to their principles: their entire lives and careers were being wrecked by the illegal COVID orders. These are courageous people - and the military needs stoic and strong heroes, of which 8,331 were dismissed due to insane orders of the Biden administration.

No more letters of intent.

Been waiting for any mention of him and his status for weeks.
I thought he’d be the strength of our defensive backfield and possibly all-American.
Since safety play has been very acceptable in his absence, will he be the answer at nickel when he returns?

RIP to my old man, class of ‘70 (I’m class of ‘01). He was on AY for decades as the lurker @foots20 He was the reason I joined back in the day. From the ICU bed he got to watch us beat the piss out of mizzou. We live in LA and the nurse asked him if he liked LSU and he just gave her that look that said it all. Tough man. All alpha. All Aggie.

A ton of news here:

What was the handle of the guy on here that all of you called a raging dipshit and I was all like “hey stop that about a fellow Aggie” but you were all like “fvck that he’s a stupid jackass moron” when he said that Katrina was a dud? He doesn’t post here anymore, right? Did he unsubscribe or die or still here?

To 30 days -- 3 weeks in the winter, 9 days in the spring.

You don't need to add LSU and Ole Miss. That's already on there.

The sips have Arkansas and Vandy on their schedule, not to mention Georgia, Kentucky, Florida (who will be playing for their coach and their lives), and OU next week. I think there are at least two losses in that hand before they play us. I’m glad we got Arkansas behind us. They looked stout against Tennessee.

Midlothian OL Nelson McGuire is in. Story here.

3:15, sec network.

This guy seemed to pout from the get go. For being the best player on their team, he seemed to quit early in the game. Seemed like a shitty teammate.

Are here.

From Athlon Sports

The college football season is heading into Week 7, and we've seen some chaos unfold in the SEC.

In Week 6, the Vanderbilt Commodores took down the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, the Arkansas Razorbacks defeated the fourth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers and the Texas A&M Aggies laid the hammer on the No. 9 Missouri Tigers.

With all but one SEC team having a loss next to their name already, legendary college football head coach Steve Spurrier weighed in on which team "is in the driver's seat."

Spurrier isn't necessarily talking about the team he expects to win the conference championship or perhaps make the College Football Playoff, but rather the team that has performed thus far and has a schedule that sets up nicely the rest of the way to make the SEC title game.
On a recent episode of the "Another Dooley Noted Podcast," Spurrier named the Texas A&M Aggies the team to beat.

“There might be a championship game with both teams (having) at least one loss, I would guess,” Spurrier said. "Texas A&M’s sort of in the driver’s seat right now, conference wise, I think without any losses. Almost everybody else has one now.”

The Aggies have shown promise in Year 1 under new head coach Mike Elko. They are currently 5-1 and have an undefeated 3-0 SEC record. In addition to their win over Missouri, they have wins over the Florida Gators and Arkansas Razorbacks.

Looking ahead, they will only play two more ranked opponents in 2024, and both of them will be in College Station.

Here's the full schedule the rest of the way:

• Bye
• @ Mississippi State
• vs. No. 13 LSU
• @ South Carolina
• vs. New Mexico State
• @ Auburn
• vs. No. 1 Texas

Moose acts like a thug. Surprised they even keep him on the team.

A&M was ranked 108th after McNeese.
Today, they're 40th.

Tyler White, again.

Offensive lineman of the week: Trey Zuhn
Player of the game: Conner Weigman
Defensive linemen of the week: Albert Regis and Rodas Johnson
Defensive lineman of the game: Nic Scourton

Says they started sharp on offense. Said they had a little rut in the late third quarter and they want to look at that and the number of penalties.
Really happy with the distribution of the ball, with 10 guys getting catches.
Says it's good that Jabre Barber is getting more involved and his role will continue to expand.

Says the D-line controlled the game, limiting the running game and then getting after Cook.
The defense made a "big step" compared to the Florida, when they eased up. They didn't do that Saturday.
"We held a very potent offense to 13 for 31 and 186 yards."
Says Tyler White and Randy Bond are weapons for them, but the rest of special teams is still a work in progress.
"You always want to win at 11 a.m. because you have to deal with that all day, and you want to win going into the bye week."

Says the O-line has become the lifeblood of the program.
Says Marcel Reed took the demotion like a competitor, but he also wants to win and he's an Aggie, so he understood it.

Says the team is starting to understand what a mentality is. How much effort it takes, the strain every day. That is something he finds exciting.
"As long as we stay in that mindset and continue to grow every day...you show up on Saturday and you're a little better than you were last Saturday, and that's what they're seeing now."

This week will be like fall camp and just focus on themselves, and will start seriously working on Mississippi State on Sunday.
Jay Bateman calls the game. All the game. "That's his show, he's the one running the thing."

Said they got the best version of Conner during the week and felt that was the most likely way to win. Weigman had to convince him that he was ready and they talked Wednesday and knew Weigman was in the right mindset and ready to go.

Says Bussey is becoming a better, more technically sound football player each time out instead of just being a great athlete. He's getting more comfortable with everything.

TJ Shanahan could be back later this week or next week. Says they're in a really good spot injury-wise.
I asked him about the secondary, and he said that some learning growth was inevitable. But now that they're getting on the same page, they can be really good.

Hoping for a close, exciting game to cap off this great football Saturday.

Arky driving.

Better than I thought. I think 15 is right though today.