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The Division of the Navy issued an apology letter Friday to former army personnel “unjustly eliminated” from service due to the COVID vaccine mandate throughout the Biden administration.
Below Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao emphasised that the Division of Battle is dedicated to “righting previous wrongs” and welcoming again former service members who had been dismissed throughout the pandemic.
“To the sailors and marines who had been wrongfully discharged throughout COVID, we failed you,” Hung mentioned in a video posted on X. “We’ll by no means permit this to occur once more, not on my watch. We’re prepared so that you can come again, and we need to right your information.”
Cao, the Division of the Navy’s chief working and chief administration officer, overseeing roughly a million Navy, Marine Corps and civilian personnel, acknowledged the impression of the mandate on these it pressured out.
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Below Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao appeared in a video discussing the Navy’s apology letter to former service members. (U.S. Navy)
“We’re righting this unsuitable and it begins with this formal letter of apology,” he mentioned.
President Donald Trump signed Govt Order 14184 shortly after returning to workplace final January, directing federal companies to determine service members affected by the previous vaccine requirement and take steps to reinstate them or restore sure advantages.
The order applies to former members of the Military, Air Power, Marine Corps, Navy, House Power and Coast Guard who had been discharged solely for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth mentioned the Pentagon is reviewing discharges tied to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and dealing to right army information. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
The previous secretary of protection mandated in 2021 that each one service members obtain the COVID-19 vaccine, a coverage that was rescinded in 2023.
“The army unjustly discharged those that refused the vaccine, whatever the years of service given to our Nation, after failing to grant lots of them an exemption that they need to have acquired,” Trump’s government order states.
The Division of Battle issued steerage to all of the secretaries of army departments to contact former service members with details about potential reinstatement and to right their discharge information.
President Donald Trump signed an government order in January 2025, directing the assessment of army discharges tied to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. (Al Drago/Reuters)
Based on the Division of Veterans Affairs, greater than 8,000 service members had been separated after the Biden administration’s Division of Protection issued the vaccination mandate.
“It’s unconscionable that 1000’s of former Service members who held true to their private and non secular convictions weren’t simply separated, however separated with common (underneath honorable situations), quite than honorable, discharge characterizations,” Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth mentioned in a December memo. “Whereas many have utilized for and acquired reduction from our Navy Division assessment boards, I consider the onus is on us to make this proper.”
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Below Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao acknowledged the impression of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on service members dismissed from the army. (U.S. Navy)
Hegseth mentioned he directed a proactive assessment of personnel information to determine people involuntarily discharged solely for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine and facilitate applicable discharge upgrades.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Navy for extra data.
