What type of discharge should I expect for refusing the covid vaccine?

So all of the shots/vaccinations that the military has given you already and you didn't even know what some of them were or the background information or history of each one.... But this one (Covid vaccine) is different and a major problem??? A big enough problem for you to lose all or some of your VA benefits and/or sacrifice a career if you were planning on staying in? I don't get it.

While I understand your concern with this shot, and now that I’m retired I no longer have a dog in this hunt, but when you raise your right hand to enlist you give up many of the rights you had as a civilian and vaccinations is one of them. My professional opinion to you is to suck it up and complete your enlistment and ETS honorably, otherwise get out and show potential employers you quit when you don't like something!

As it stands now, they will all be categorized as general under honorable.

EDIT:

Soldiers who refuse could face "administrative or non-judicial punishment [under the Uniform Code of Military Justice] -- to include relief of duties or discharge," according to the new Army guidelines obtained by Military.com.

Administrative action includes initiating what is called a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand, or GOMOR, for all refusals without an allowed exemption. The reprimand is widely seen as a military career killer but can, under certain circumstances, be tossed from a soldier's record.

All judicial action will be launched by colonels in a soldier's chain of command, or a general in units without a colonel.

Soldiers who have pending decisions on medical or religious exemptions will not face any adverse action.

Dude, it's not that big of a deal. Just get the fucking shot.

Coming from a vaccinated republican.

No idea why everyone is going nuts over this.

What are your specific reasons for refusing a very safe, effective, and approved vaccine that saves lives? Over 763,000 Americans have died. Companies in the civilian world are also requiring folks to have the vaccine.

The whole idea of mandating someone in the military is absurd to me... When l served, we didnt get the option to refuse such things... it's just do it... it should be part of the initial shot indocting and not be able to waive a pink flag because someone feels they are getting their feelings hurt... just get the stupid shot... it's not that hard to do!

Honorable sounds like the right discharge to me - of course, if Democrats have their way, and you don't take the jab, you'd get a dishonorable discharge (and before anybody busts my chops, I know the only way you can get a DD is through a General Court-Martial conviction - I was a legal clerk seven years).

Wow - you should all be embarrassed for treating this soldier so badly in these comments for asking a simple administrative question. If you're so tough, how about moving on without spewing a hissy fit when you see an opinion you disagree with? SPC Adams hopefully you've gotten your question answered!

I see lots of assumptions about the vaccine and questions about conduct in this thread and I’d like to provide a different perspective. In 1990-91 hundreds of thousands of military members were given meds and vaccines that were being administered off label but were “safe” and thought effective for the military purpose. Today 300,000 US, over 50,000 UK as well as thousands of French and Canadian vets suffer from GWS. In the US somewhere around 100k are reported to have debilitating disease. Nexus letters written by VA docs currently clearly state that the cause of the illness is vaccines, medications and possibly exposure to chemical warfare agents. In the 90s vets groups and vets fault long and hard to be sure such experimental meds were never used on troops again. The results can be seen in Doe v Rumsfeld filed
In 2004. I saw one post here in a different thread indicating Doe was not valid law, but I cannot find any place where it was overturned. Doe MAY be distinguishable because the issue revolved around a vaccine that was approved but not for purpose (see GWI) and through a process where the FDA did not follow its own procedures. I said MAY be distinguishable because these vaccines were not approved through the FDAs “usual” processes. Phase 3 trials were truncated among other issues which all made sense for high risk populations. Does it meet the criteria applied under Doe v Rumsfeld? Only the Courts can and ultimately will decide. Finally not all military docs are on board with this by the way. An Army flight surgeon has had to ground pilots as a result of vaccine side effects and when she raised these issues to the CoC she was shuffled off to a corner and told to shut up. She is now a whistle blower raising the issues through that venue. A Navy Surgeon has likewise gone public with similar concerns. So these questions are not nearly as cut and dry as thought. BTW GWS was officially recognized in 1996 by the US Congress as a presumptive illness, by the CDC and by the Kansas protocol used by VA - yet gulf vets still have a difficult time getting care or benefits of any type - with the GAO stating they between 83 and 92% of diagnosed GWS claims are still denied service connection in spite of presumptive connection legislation, solid diagnosis, frequently by VA docs and decades of supporting research. So if you are thinking that any vaccine issues will be covered you need to research how the military circles it’s wagons to absolutely insure it never admits it’s mistakes. For reference compare the 83% denial of these presumptive conditions with the 30% denial rate for all other claims.

SPC (Join to see) Probably General under Honorable conditions.