President Donald Trump on late Monday signed an executive order to reinstate service members who were discharged under the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
The order calls on the secretary of defense and the secretary of homeland security to take action to “enable those service members reinstated under this section to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation.”
The order also covers service members who “voluntarily” left the service rather than comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
However, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg said court cases are still important for ensuring that all military members negatively affected by the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate receive the mandated backpay.