First to go, the ones who brought DEI into the meritocracy, and the ones who welcomed Drag Shows on base, and a special kick in the ass as they leave for the ones who forced thousands of capable, expensively trained, willing and patriotic service members out of the military over a damn covid shot.

I think the former is just made-up crap from the RW propaganda machine. I recall reading about one drag show on base. One. Hardly a trend.

The latter, though, is not optional. Granted, it was 40 years ago, but when I was in, you could not refuse vaccination. They lined you up, and you walked between two medical persons with injector guns. You'd stand there, and you'd get one in each arm. I don't remember how many days we had to do that, but they didn't give you all the shots in one day. Only an allergy to the vaccines would have been a valid excuse to disobey that order. The COVID shot would be no different today, and it shouldn't have been. Chalk up resistance to that shot to the RWPM, spreading disinformation for at least 30 years now. It was at least as safe as any other vaccine (probably more, since a bit of RNA cannot infect you with the disease).