
Green argued at a House Armed Services Committee markup of the bill earlier in the month, “Any discharge other than honorable denotes a failure to serve the United States to the best of one’s ability, and it significantly impacts an individual for the rest of their lives - future employment and things of that nature.”

is trying to strip out my amendment preventing anything but an honorable discharge for servicemembers who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine-an amendment so commonsense that EVERY Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee agreed to it! /1H8q29v3kj Green, an Army veteran and physician, tweeted in response to the trying to strip out my amendment preventing anything but an honorable discharge for servicemembers who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine-an amendment so commonsense that EVERY Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee agreed to it! “To enable a uniformed force to fight with discipline, commanders must have the ability to give orders and take appropriate disciplinary measures,” the White House statement said.

Mark Green (R-TN), “would detract from readiness and limit a commander’s options for enforcing good order and discipline when a Service member fails to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccination.” The Biden administration released a Statement of Administration Policy on September 21, that said the provision, authored by Rep.

The Biden White House issued a statement this week opposing a provision in a bipartisan defense bill that would prohibit dishonorable discharges for members of the military refusing to get a mandatory coronavirus vaccine.
