Unvaccinated Airmen Lose Pay, Benefits as Air National Guard Yanks Orders
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Master Sgt. Jeffrey Delorey, a medic with the 157th Medical Group, gives Tech. Sgt. Ravi Madahar, a boom operator with the 157th Operations Group, a Moderna booster shot Dec. 22, 2021 at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire. [Photo: Staff Sgt. Victoria Nelson/Air National Guard]
Master Sgt. Jeffrey Delorey, a medic with the 157th Medical Group, gives Tech. Sgt. Ravi Madahar, a boom operator with the 157th Operations Group, a Moderna booster shot Dec. 22, 2021 at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire. [Photo: Staff Sgt. Victoria Nelson/Air National Guard]
A new year is bringing new consequences for thousands of Air National Guardsmen who aren’t vaccinated against the coronavirus.
As of Dec. 31, 2,500 unvaccinated airmen and Space Force guardians are ineligible for pay or benefits from the Air National Guard. Those troops are also banned from finishing out jobs, taking on new orders, showing up to drill weekends or participating in training.
It’s the service’s latest step to. . . [Read the rest of this story in Air Force Times].
