Children's Health Defense
President Donald Trump on late Monday signed an executive order to reinstate service members who were discharged under the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
The order calls on the secretary of defense and the secretary of homeland security to take action to “enable those service members reinstated under this section to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation.”
The order also covers service members who “voluntarily” left the service rather than comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
However, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg said court cases are still important for ensuring that all military members negatively affected by the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate receive the mandated backpay.
Mack Rosenberg explained:
“The executive order signed by President Trump offers a variety of means of redress to service members who refused the COVID-19 injections during the almost year-and-a-half that military mandates were in place and who either were discharged because of that refusal or who left the service because of the mandate.
“However, the order does not create a private remedy. The executive government cannot magically issue checks for back pay to these members overnight…
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