Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum on Wednesday, directing additional guidance on efforts to reinstate U.S. service members wrongly discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine mandated by the Biden administration.
The memo directs Tom Dill, the undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, to provide additional guidance to the boards responsible for reviewing the cases of those service members discharged under the now-defunct vaccine mandate.
“The guidance also will facilitate the removal of adverse actions on service members solely for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, including discharge upgrades and less than fully honorable discharges for individuals separated from refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine,” Hegseth said. “We’re trying to scrub all that, clean all that up.”…