Milley and Austin have been pro-mRNA injectionsax

12-4-22 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops, as Republican governors and lawmakers press to rescind it. This past week more than 20 Republican governors sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking that the administration remove the mandate, saying it has hurt the U.S. National Guard’s ability to recruit troops. Those troops are activated by governors to respond to natural disasters or unrest. Congress may consider legislation this coming week to end the mandate as a requirement to gather enough support to pass this years’ defense budget, which is already two months late. Austin said he would not comment on pressure from the Hill. “We lost a million people to this virus,” Austin told reporters traveling with him Saturday. “A million people died in the United States of America. We lost hundreds in DOD. So this mandate has kept people healthy.” “I’m the guy” who ordered the military to require the vaccine, Austin added. “I support continuation of vaccinating the troops.” Last year Austin directed that all troops get the vaccine or face potential expulsion from the military; thousands of active duty forces have been discharged since then for their refusal to get the shots. https://fortune.com/2022/12/04/covid-19-vaccine-mandate-military-national-guard-lloyd-austin-pentagon-will-stay-in-place/ (It did not stay in place. About 12 million Americans have died of the vaccine/bioweapon as of Dec 2022. -r) ………… Washington, April 5, 2022 Is the Defense Department’s COVID-vaccine mandate hurting recruiting and retention? Two Republican House members tried to make the case on Tuesday, but received pushback from the Defense Secretary and the Joint Chiefs chairman. Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana said Tuesday at a House Armed Services Committee hearing into the spending proposal. “Is the Army cutting their numbers because they know they can’t recruit enough people to meet their quotas?” Banks asked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana offered his theory: “I think the largest headwind [to recruiting] is inescapably the reaction that DOD took to COVID.”  Austin responded by pointing to a number of factors that have hurt recruiting in recent years. For long stretches, recruiters were unable to visit high schools for in-person recruiting while students were learning virtually. Unemployment is currently below 4 percent, which Austin called a “key issue.”  In a recent Defense Writers Group meeting, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville also blamed the strong economy and said part of the solution would be recruiting beyond a small set of families whose members have served. But Banks and Johnson had other thoughts.  “It's the department's COVID vaccine mandate, and there's just no way around it,” Johnson said.  Both lawmakers said the military’s personnel goals are hampered by DOD policy that new recruits be vaccinated and that troops who refuse the vaccine be ejected. “On March 18, the U.S. Army discharged three soldiers, the first time it has booted troops for failing to comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate,” Banks said. “It is projected that 2,609 total soldiers”—he cited no source for this—”the size of a couple of Army battalions, have not taken the vaccine and will likely be separated from the Army. Once again, how is this loss of personnel going to hurt the overall strength of the Army?” “I think if 2,000 are kicked out, I think that would hurt,” Milley responded. “But I think there's an issue of education here and persuasion and making sure that these soldiers are making informed decisions.” Johnson argued that the COVID mandate was an obstacle to a large chunk of young people who might otherwise enlist. More than 40 percent of men aged 18 to 24 have chosen not to become fully vaccinated—52 percent in Johnson’s southeast region of the country52 percent, Johnson said, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The DoD is having a recruiting and retention crisis because it’s disqualified over half of the male population from serving in the military,” Johnson said. “And then we're adding fuel to the crisis because there's this charade about the religious exemption process for service members and I believe it's blatantly unconstitutional.”  Austin said he had no intention of changing the vaccine mandate and said he “certainly disagrees with the premise” that the vaccine is having such a significant impact on military end strength. Milley echoed Austin. “We get a lot of vaccinations. Anthrax is very, very low out there and we still get an anthrax vaccination. So I think getting vaccinated is part of the readiness issue of the health of the force,” Milley said. “We are an institution that has a sole set of requirements in terms of the health of the force, and shots, and etc. There's a policy and our job is to enforce the policy.” https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1086 ……………Lloyd Austin obtained a Master of Arts degree in counselor education from Auburn University's College of Education in 1986, and a Master of Business Administration in business management from Webster University in 1989. -wikipedia ......................... By Jack Detsch, a Pentagon and national security reporter at Foreign Policy., and Robbie Gramer, a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy Institute November 25, 2020, Several members of the top federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense have been suddenly pushed out, multiple U.S. officials told Foreign Policy, in what appears to be the outgoing Trump administration’s parting shot at scions of the foreign-policy establishment The directive, which the Pentagon’s White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as chief of naval operations; and a onetime ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Rudy De Leon, a former chief operating officer at the Pentagon once considered by then-Defense Secretary James Mattis for a high-level policy role, will also be ousted.  Also booted in today’s sweep of the board, which is effective immediately, were former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and David McCormick, a former Treasury Department undersecretary during the George W. Bush administration. Both had been added to the board by Mattis in 2017. Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton administration deputy attorney general; Robert Joseph, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator who convinced Libya to give up weapons of mass destruction; former Bush Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch II; and Franklin Miller, a former top defense official, have also been removed.  The board, overseen by the Pentagon’s top policy official, the undersecretary of defense for policy, serves as a kind of in-house think tank on retainer for top military leaders, providing independent counsel and advice on defense policy. The Defense Policy Board includes former top military brass, secretaries of state, members of Congress, and other senior diplomats and foreign-policy experts. The status of two other members of the panel—or who would replace the ousted members—was not immediately clear. Officials said that the Trump administration had long tried to remake the board with figures seen as loyal to the president—and outside of the Washington establishment—but had received pushback from recently ousted Defense Secretary Mark Esper and acting Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson, who sought to keep the board in place to allow for policy continuity. Both Esper and Anderson were removed earlier this month in a purge of Pentagon officials.  The White House had sought to add Scott O’Grady, a former Air Force fighter pilot shot down over Bosnia, to the board to prepare him to be nominated for a top Pentagon position, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a close ally of President Donald Trump. The administration had also vetoed adding retired Adm. Eric Olson, a former U.S. Special Operations Command chief, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as Gordon England, a former deputy secretary of defense during the Bush administration, over perceived anti-Trump ties.  “If they get treated like that, then who is going to want to volunteer?” a former senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Foreign Policy.  While the board has no tangible role inside the Pentagon in the policymaking process it routinely advises senior military leadership on some of the top strategic national security threats facing the United States. The board convened in October for classified discussions on formulating a long-term strategy toward China and deterrence in space, according to a notice from the Federal Register. The meeting included briefings from the CIA, the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, and other senior Pentagon policy officials. Officials in the Pentagon see this week’s purges as a sign the White House will be even more aggressive in bending the Pentagon to its political whims. “It’s embarrassing for the United States,” a former senior intelligence officer who served under Trump said of the recent spate of firings. The composition of the board has faced scrutiny from some Republican foreign-policy analysts who say the current members do not accurately reflect the views of the administration, including its hard-line views toward China, as the Washington Times reported in October. Given the criticism it is unclear why the White House waited until the final months of Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office to make changes to the Defense Policy Board. Some members of the board, including Roughead, Albright, and Harman, were added to the board during the Obama administration in 2011. The move follows a recent decision by Whitehouse, the liaison officer, to begin political-style vetting of nonpolitical experts and employees on loan from think tanks, an effort that had only extended to political appointees in the past. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pentagon-purges-leading-advisors-from-defense-policy-board/ ……  By Oren Liebermann, CNN November 18, 2021  Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the new chair of the Defense Policy Board Wednesday, the Pentagon announced, almost exactly one year after the Trump administration abruptly removed her and other national security experts from the advisory committee. Albright is the first chair of the board since Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin initiated his review of the Pentagon’s advisory committees earlier this year. In early February, Austin dismissed hundreds of members of the department’s 42 boards and committees, including controversial members appointed in the waning days of the Trump administration. After losing the 2020 election, Trump purged some longstanding foreign policy and national security experts from the boards, including Albright, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and others. Now one year after she was removed from the Defense Policy Board, the 84-year-old Albright will return as its chair. She served as the first female secretary of state from 1997-2001. “Under Secretary Austin’s leadership, the Department is adapting to the changing nature of warfare and working to stay ahead of any potential adversaries,” Albright said in a statement. “I look forward to partnering with my colleagues on the DPB to offer our independent advice on the full range of policy issues confronting the Department.” As of now Albright is the only member of the Defense Policy Board, according to the Defense Department’s website. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/madeleine-albright-defense-policy-board/index.html ....................... Vaccines as instruments of foreign policy by Peter Hotez …This (latter 1990s) period also heralded a resurgence in funding for the treatment and prevention of tropical diseases. Indeed, the new millennium is the harbinger of a renaissance in tropical disease research that resembles the Rockefeller philanthropy at the turn of the last century. In an extraordinary two-year burst of activity, vast amounts of new private and federal funds were infused into what the late Kenneth Warren of the Rockefeller Foundation often referred to as ‘the great neglected diseases of mankind’. Funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org) and Ted Turner received the greatest attention, but the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the NIH and nascent foundations like the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Ellison Medical Foundation are also helping to revive a moribund US tropical disease research effort. The Rockfeller Foundation also renewed their commitment to funding biomedical research through financing the International AIDS vaccine initiative. As shown in Table TableI,I, the funding is targetted to new or improved vaccines for the great scourges of the tropics such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, meningococcal meningitis, enteric bacteria, hookworm and leishmaniasis. Overall, funds will exceed US$ 1 billion and an almost equal amount has been set aside to improve the delivery of existing vaccines. Here, the magnitude of the Gates funding for vaccine R&D dwarfs all previous funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, WHO or any single national government. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1084093/ ......... So while Milley has spoken of military as arm of politics, Hotez (PhD from Rockefeller University in 1986) speaks of vaccines asarm of foreign policy. It'sKissinger/Rockefeller/Gates -speak, nwo-speak.