by Kyle Becker at Becker News
On the “Firebrand with Matt Gaetz” podcast, three active duty servicemembers — Air Force Capt. Jordan Karr, Army Maj. Samuel Sigoloff and Air Force Master Sgt. Nickolas Kupper — joined the Florida congressman to discuss the ways the vaccine mandate has been used to carry out a ‘purge’ of thousands of military members, while hurting troop readiness and morale.
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“Are you able to practice medicine now in the Army?” Gaetz asked Army Maj. Samuel Sigoloff.
“No,” Maj. Sigoloff replied.” So that leads me to where I am stationed. Now I went to Fort Huachuca to be the medical director. I was their first pick and they were my first pick. And then after a month of work, I was suspended for granting medical exemptions, soldiers who do not want to get the shot. So since September 13th, I have not been in medical practice and I’m in a threat of losing my license in Texas. Also at this institution, Iivermectin has been banned for off-label use, and it was not a medical doctor and not someone licensed to practice. So this person that did this is practicing medicine without a license.”
Gaetz then turned to the personal testimonial of Captain Jordan Karr.
“So I’ve been in the United States Air Force for about nine years now,” Captain Karr said. “I come from a family of Patriots. Every single family member generation has served in some capacity in armed forces. My sister’s a space force officer who’s going through the same process that I am. I’ve been deployed overseas. I’ve had a lot of amazing opportunities in my career, and you know, this is unprecedented, what’s going on and I could spend all day talking about myself. But I really don’t wanna do that.”
“I want to talk about testimony that other service members are going through — the most disheartening aspect of all,” Karr said. “This is the junior enlisted, you know, they’re the backbone of our forces and the stuff that they are going through. Same with our cadets and our military academies, what they’re going through. They feel very alone and they feel isolated. And, you know, part of the reason that we’re here is to show them that they’re not alone.”
The Florida congressman asked Captain Karr about her opinion regarding troop morale.
“So, morale is very low,” Karr said. “Again, like Sam said, these views are my own, not that of the Department of Defense, which I think is pretty clear since all three of us are plaintiffs in a lawsuit. The morale is very low. The people who got the shot maybe didn’t want it, or maybe didn’t know that the mandates being passed down were unlawful. They’re seeing it now too.”
“I’ve heard testimony from service members who got the shot and they don’t want to reenlist,” Karr added. “They’re feeling it across the force. I have friends that have been grounded from flying. They’re fully capable. They are able, they’re trained, the taxpayers pay them to fly. They’re not allowed to fly because they’re unvaccinated. And the irony here is they’ve actually had to fly for vaccinated members who have had to call out sick. And so… members are feeling it across the force.”
Air Force Master Sgt. Nickolas Kupper then weighed in on the issue of medical and religious exemptions.
“I’ve seen hundreds of denied religious combination requests to include denied appeal requests,” Master Sgt. Kupper said. “I’ve seen a handful of the approved ones and all of them start with the premise that the government has such a strong interest in vaccinating us that while they determine all of our religious beliefs or to be sincerely held, they determine that even as strongly as our beliefs are, they’re not as strong as the government’s desire and need to vaccinate all of us.”…
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