Army Chopper Pilot to be Kicked Out over Vaccine Mandate

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ccine-mandate/

Rep. Andy Biggs Urges Defense Secretary to Look Into Army Pilot Being Kicked Out over Vaccine Mandate



Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Thursday wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asking him to look into the case highlighted by Breitbart News of an Army Black Hawk pilot facing discharge next month stemming from the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate nearly four years ago.

“I’m asking @SecDef to look into CW3 Budge’s case. Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate was unconstitutional, and none of our service members should face termination over it—especially not years after the fact,” Biggs posted on X, along with the letter.

The letter, addressed to Hegseth, read:

Dear Secretary Hegseth: I am deeply troubled by reports that an Army Black Hawk pilot is facing discharge next month for refusing to comply with the unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandate’. Under the Biden administration, our military was weaponized against its own service members, forcing them to choose between their personal convictions and their careers.

In this case, a medic allegedly entered a false record indicating the pilot received the vaccine— something he was completely unaware of and learned upon receiving the vaccine. If this is true, this means the service member is being punished for a misrepresentation that was entirely out of his control, which is unjust and unacceptable, and wouldn’t have happened were it not for the
initial mandate.

I urge you to launch an immediate investigation into what truly happened in this case and others like it. No one should lose their career due to falsified records they had no knowledge of or involvement in. Our military must operate with integrity and fairness, and service members
deserve due process before being discharged under such circumstances.

I respectfully request an update on the status of this case and any actions being taken to ensure that no service member is wrongfully discharged due to actions taken without their knowledge or
fault.

Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered that every service member take the coronavirus vaccine or be kicked out of the military, resulting in more than 8,000 troops being involuntary discharged, and an estimated tens of thousands more choosing to leave and not reenlist.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would allow those who were forced out over the vaccine mandate the ability to reenlist with a restoration to their rank and backpay. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to implement the executive order.

However, in the case of the pilot, Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge, he is currently serving but is due to be forced out next month over allegations related to the vaccine mandate.

As Breitbart News reported Thursday, Budge resisted getting vaccinated with the emergency use authorized drug available to troops at the time, much to the ire of his command.

A medic entered a falsely entered on his medical record that he was vaccinated when he was not, despite him not requesting it, according to Budge.
Army Black Hawk pilot is facing discharge next month stemming from the Biden administration's vaccine mandate nearly four years ago. (Supplied)

Army Black Hawk pilot Brandon Budge is facing discharge next month stemming from the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate nearly four years ago. (Supplied)

He later did get vaccinated, after he was scheduled to deploy to South Korea and was told he could not come home if something happened to his wife, who was pregnant with their eighth child without being quarantined for two weeks first.

Budge went to get vaccinated, which was when he discovered the false entry. His command punished him for knowing about the entry and not correcting it — despite him being vaccinated. He was issued a general officer memorandum of reprimand, or a GOMOR, which is a career-damaging letter of reprimand for serious misconduct.

Budge fought the allegation to no avail, and is due to be kicked out on April 30, 2025.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George called Budge on Wednesday morning to say that he was looking into his case, according to his spokesman Army Col. Dave Butler.

Butler also said George had ordered that all GOMORs related to the vaccine mandate be reviewed.

It's a strange story. Pilot says unbeknownst to him, a medic turned in paperwork saying medic injected the pilot, but still the pilot's commanders insisted he get injected, which he did, and that's when he discovered the medic had already tried to cover him by reporting the pilot as injected.

If the pilot was reported as having been injected, then why was his command staff on him to get injected, presumably, injected again. Did they not see paperwork showing he was injected already?

Something is fishy all around here.

Personally, I'd say this is really a "fruit of the poisonous tree" issue. No matter what happened, who did what and who knew what, the whole issue stems from a mandate that should have never taken place in the first place, so just drop this and let the guy finish his career.

Sounds like the medic is the hero here, putting himself on the line to protect a fellow soldier from potential injury. Kind of like jumping on a grenade, not knowing whether it's a dummy or a real one.

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Weak but if the Medics story checks out, Hegseth or Trump should fix it. Being a CW3, he is on Indef Status meaning he can go to full retirement unless something like this happens.

For Warrants at least, The first 4 years are sort of a probationary time frame and unless you apply for Indef Status as most do, you're out. At least that is how it used to be