GOP Lawmakers Ask Marine Corps to Address Recruitment Shortage Produced by Vaccine Mandate
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), along with House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) and Reps. Max Miller (R-Ohio) and Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), sent a letter to the Marine Corps Wednesday to address the service recruiting shortage produced in part by vaccine mandates.
“We write to express our concerns over the unprecedented recruiting challenges your service and the entire Department of Defense is experiencing,” the House Republicans wrote in the letter addressed to Commandant of the Marine Corps General David H. Berger. “Adding to this problem, the U.S. Marine Corps dismissed many of its dedicated Marines because of their desire to not receive the COVID-19 vaccine.”…