Will Senior Leaders Who Refuse COVID Vaccination Receive Court Martial?

I suspect you are right. At a minimum, I think it likely that those without vaccinations will be considered non-deployable. Most SMs non-deployable are not retained.

PO1 Nick Lingenfelter - Burden of proof is on the accuser.
That's just the way it works.
But if you are curious about the scientific evidence regarding the vaccines' safety and efficacy, there have been plenty of links provided in these threads.

Or seperate.

SFC Kelly Fuerhoff

The minute you enlist your body belongs to Uncle Sam! I think you had best read your oath!

SGM Jeff Mccloud - And you think the Anthrax one was before they gave it to the soldiers back in the mid 90's? It does not matter anyways. You are Property of the US Government. Failure to comply with the order from the DoD is a direct violation of your Oath and a Disobeyment of a Superior Officer. At least they are offering a Honorable Discharge.

1SG Dennis Hicks - We have the vaccine thanks to President Trump and the urgency to find a vaccine. He and his family have been vaccinated since January, and he had COVID. When at a rally in Alabama he urged people to get vaccinated, he was booed. It behooves us to follow real scientific information and not what comes off of media. Tucker Carlson is one such a boob. He spreads misinformation daily, yet he himself is vaccinated. How do I know? You can't work.at FoxNews without a vaccine. It is mandated. Be careful, you may catch BDS. Lol.

SGT (Join to see) - My personal choice is to avoid yet another GOVT vaccination for many reasons, mostly due to the way they force folks to get it, as for BDS the nice thing about it is you get free cream and forget what you just said anyway. :)

1SG Dennis Hicks - Lol!

Enlisted got shots, went to okinawa got shots, tdy all over se asia and east asia got shots. I go shots for shots if I complained i was told to write my congresssman!

LTC Lars Staack I can only speak to my command, but from the very beginning they were holding town halls and classes concerning COVID and the eventual vaccines. We've been drowning in researched, sourced data presented by our command medical teams.

That speaks well for your command. But, there are limits. You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think.

Capt Gregory Prickett Yes, AR stands for Army Regulation... ;o)

Capt Gregory Prickett - I may be wrong. While the cited reference was AR, the vaccination mandate came from SecDef. You know that cabinet member that oversees ALL military branches?

Vaccine hesitancy is a normal reaction to the shortened development timeline. However, it must be noted that they receive the same due diligence during testing as every other vaccine. Statistics kept over many decades show that adverse side effects are identified within six weeks of inoculation for the vast majority of vaccine testing. Millions of people have received it for going on eight months. with very, very few adverse effects; it's one of the safest vaccines ever. The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine has been approved by the FDA; Moderna will probably follow shortly.

https://pssjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13 [login to see] 1-9

Except it isn’t a vaccine missing the most important piece of an actual vaccine and that’s the actual virus! In the Immortal words of the Liberal Democrats “Follow the Science” LTC Lars Staack

Yes, you are right, the FDA approved Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine doesn't use live or inactivated viruses. That fact doesn't mean it's not a vaccine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine#Attenuated

Main point “production of antibodies” which is not what it does therefore the science says it’s not a vaccine! You proved my point for me!SFC Kelly Fuerhoff

You raise a good point. When we lined up for anthrax shots, many of us worried that it would bring long-term health consequences, like some newspapers implied. We did it because dying in an Iraqi battlefield seemed more real at the time. And, because we were ordered to. As officers, we had to set an example.

I suspect that General Washington's Soldiers felt the same way when they were ordered to take the rudimentary Smallpox vaccine in 1775. It turns out that there wasn't long-term consequences for that Smallpox vaccine. Or for the Anthrax vaccine. In fact, I challenge you to find a single approved vaccine with common or long-term side effects that were not discovered within 6 weeks of testing.

There actually is plenty of data to review regarding the possibility of long term effects
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html#:~:text=Serious%20side%20effects%20that%20could,receiving%20a%20vaccine%20dose.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html#:~:text=Serious%20side%20effects%20that%20could,receiving%20a%20vaccine%20dose.
https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-vaccine
https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19-vaccine-wont-have-long-term-side-effects
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2021/06/will-kids-have-long-term-effects-covid-19-vaccine

And while the concept of mRNA as a vaccine sounds new to the general population, there is plenty of information on the last 20 years of research and development on mRNA vaccines to review:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/
https://www.uab.edu/news/youcanuse/item/12059-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-how-could-anything-developed-this-quickly-be-safe
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html
https://www.mskcc.org/coronavirus/what-s-different-about-messenger-rna-vaccines-covid-19
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/august/covid19-mrna-vaccine-that-uses-fundamental-penn-technology-receives-fda-approval

As leaders, we owe it to our troops to understand this information and communicate this information to them.
Potentially 7 out of every 1 million vaccinated will experience long term effects.
Unfortunately, we can expect about 15-16 total service members of the 2.2 million total in the active and reserve to experience long term effects from the vaccination. And like any vaccine, those effects will be apparent within 6-8 weeks of the shot.

To apply this to your "Russian roulette" analogy, that would be a revolver with 142,845 empty chambers and one with a round.
But since these same long term effects are much more likely to occur with a COVID infection than from the COVID vaccine, this is what we refer to as accepting "prudent risk".

LTC Lars Staack How many of them mutate your DNA? As for anthrax that was the biggest scam on us. I learned that Anthrax is not very effective to weaponize in a battlefield environment. It’s not like mustard gas where it can be put in a mortar. Once it dissipates in the air it becomes fairly inert. The only way to use it as a weapon is to unleash it in closed environments which we had not seen a single instance of it in the 20 years in the AOR.

Lt Col (Join to see) - Actually, none of them mutate your DNA.
And it's an understandable mistake, what most of us can't remember from HS biology and DNA, mRNA, reverse transcriptase RNA, etc.
But there is plenty of information on how an mRNA vaccine has no affect on your DNA
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html#:~:text=No.%20COVID%2D19,DNA%20in%20any%20way.
https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/you-asked-we-answered-can-mrna-vaccines-alter-human-dna
https://health-desk.org/articles/can-mrna-from-covid-19-vaccines-be-integrated-into-the-human-dna
https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2021/june/can-mrna-vaccines-affect-my-genetic-code
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-mrna-megamix/fact-check-mrna-vaccines-do-not-turn-humans-into-hybrids-or-alter-recipients-dna-idUSL1N2M61HW

LCpl Benji Smith Your statement is patently false. Please provide a citation for your statement.

LCpl Benji Smith that the vaccine is untested and unproven. Please provide peer reviewed scientific studies that back your claim.

LCpl Benji Smith https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577

95% effective. TESTED.

The overwhelming majority of ICU patients and deaths are among the UNVACCINATED.

Dr. Mercola seems like a reliable source.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/technology/joseph-mercola-coronavirus-misinformation-online.html

Typing from my Android. Sorry for the typos.

Unless they have a true reason, I meant.

You are certainly right. Old timers remember the Anthrax shots for Dessert Shield. They were controversial and caused a lot of apprehension on top of prepping for mob. Most Soldiers did their duty and didn't experience long-term side effects.

LTC Lars Staack I’m a Cold War Veteran and the second set of shots I was given before my PCS to Germany made me sick! LTC Lars Staack