Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) invited former Green Berets and military veterans who refused to comply with President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s coronavirus military vaccine directive during his State of the Union address. It emphasizes the negative consequences for The captain named his guest John Frankman, whose career had been completely changed by the now reversed order.
Breitbart News caught up with the pair Thursday during the House Republican media debate ahead of Biden’s speech later in the evening.
Gaetz’s office said in a release emailed Thursday morning that Frankman “has not received his or her vaccination under discriminatory and punitive Department of Defense (D0D) policies.” “He was one of the thousands of men who voluntarily left the Army because of the hardships faced by other service members.” He currently advocates for affected service members and played a key role in starting the Military Responsibility Declaration effort. have Over 31,000 signatures.
Army Capt. John Frankman (left) and his detachment on the ground in Eloy, Arizona, after completing a military freefall jump in June 2021. (Photo courtesy of John Frankman)
“So what we’re doing is we’re pledging to hold the Department of Defense accountable to the best of our ability. And what we want to do is, people who sign this declaration and run for seats in Congress. “And they are happy to strip these generals (namely illegal orders) of their retirement benefits and prevent them from holding senior executive positions,” Frankman said. he said.
“And what we’re trying to do is let the next president and the next administration know that he has the authority — to the military secretaries to bring these generals back from retirement to active duty and bring them to court-martial. He added: “If they didn’t do anything wrong, that’s great. But they broke the law. They forced us to do something experimental, and they forced us to do something that we didn’t know. Neither gave informed consent.”
The declaration is located at: militaryresponsibility.net
Gaetz said the United States “invested millions of dollars in training John Frankman and many other elite special forces, but their lives have been forever changed and our country has been weakened because of Joe Biden’s actions.” ” he emphasized.
Frankman was previously I got it. That I missed countless opportunities after applying for a religious exception to the vaccine.
My guest for the 2024 State of the Union Address is former U.S. Army Captain and Green Beret John Frankman (@Johny_Franks).
Frankman was one of the thousands of people who voluntarily separated after the implementation of a coronavirus vaccination mandate that forced 8,600 military members to leave the military… pic.twitter.com/sWtemYfOEU
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 7, 2024
“After applying for a religious exemption, I could not participate in deployments, my time on the team would be reduced, and I would not be able to advance my career by going to graduate school and teaching at the assignment I was accepted at West Point. ” he elaborated.
He then “decided to retire” and was discharged in July 2023 when his “additional service obligations…” expired. [his] Special forces training. ”
As Breitbart News noted, Republicans in both the House and the Senate succeeded in forcing Biden’s Pentagon to rescind the order under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, but Frankman said the order would end his career. “We have caused irreparable damage,” he said.
“We’ve lost more than a brigade’s worth of people from the military as a result of the vaccination mandate,” Gaetz told Breitbart News on Thursday.
“So I would like to give one of the service members in my district who has been negatively impacted by this vaccination mandate the opportunity to come here and represent all the conflicts that have been caused to so many people that I have touched. I wanted them to be able to give us “who John communicates with and who John communicates with,” Gates explained. “The life-impacting vaccination mandate is a table issue in my district, because I represent one of the highest concentrations of active-duty military personnel in the country, and I want to reflect their concerns. That’s why.”
“No matter the administration, I will not rest until we obtain pay, compensation, and reinstatement of rank for service members who have been unjustly expelled from the military,” Gaetz vowed.
In December, Frankman written In an exclusive Breitbart News op-ed, he detailed his vision for how the federal government can resolve issues with veterans who refuse to follow orders. This includes, in part, holding military leaders “accountable for an order that has destroyed readiness, abused service members, and often executed by coercive means,” he said. writing.
He also seeks “reparation for their suffering.”
“This includes, at a minimum, automatically increasing discharge status, giving service members the opportunity to return to service, back pay or retirement benefits, lifetime health care, and 100 percent disability by the Department of Veterans Affairs for injured service members. “These include, but are not limited to, ‘shots, favorability of promotions, assignments of lost opportunities, and rewards for personal courage,'” Frankman writes.
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