[beart]

I have a close friend who is an officer nearing twenty years. He has not had a tendency to criticize his job. However, he has been adamant that vaccines are incredibly important for the military and the policy changes have really angered him, specifically because of the damage it does to readiness.

[shagie]

> However, he has been adamant that vaccines are incredibly important for the military ...

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolu...

> During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists’ victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-source-collect...

> HEAD QUARTERS MORRIS TOWN 12TH MARCH 1777

> Sir

> You are hereby required immediately to send me an exact return of your regiment, and to send all your recruits, who have had the small pox to join the Army. Those, who have not, are to be sent to Philadelphia, and put under the direction of the commanding officer there, who will have them inoculated.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

If I remember correctly, the Battle of Agincourt, where the Welsh archers destroyed the French knights, was fought by archers with their pants around their ankles.

Apparently, there was a dysentery outbreak. They didn’t retreat, because they couldn’t. Maybe that was the thinking behind this edict.

[sandworm101]

The covid refusal also became a scam. If you refused then you couldnt be deployed. But it tool months to kick people out. So people who didnt want to deploy would refuse and then agree to get the shot at the last minute. So it kept them home for up to six months while thier buddies went overseas..

[actionfromafar]

This gets downvoted every time, maybe someone doesn't like truth because it's woke or something.

[astura]

>he has been adamant that vaccines are incredibly important for the military and the policy changes have really angered him, specifically because of the damage it does to readiness.

Your friend knows his history; disease has been the leading cause of death in warfare, historically, killing more soldiers than actual combat.

[hammock]

Did we ever get a vaccine for trench foot?

[actionfromafar]

Can't you just drink raw milk instead? - RFK Jr