206 Marines Booted From Corps for Refusing Vaccine
U.S. Marines with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. step off in the early morning during an operation to push out Taliban fighters on July 18, 2009, in Herati, Afghanistan. (Joe Raedle/Getty) More than 200 U.S. Marines unvaccinated against COVID-19 have been discharged, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday. Active-duty Marines had until Nov. 14 to get vaccinated or apply for an exemption. Those members who did not comply would face being discharged. A total of 206 Marines had been discharged through Wednesday, a service branch spokesperson told the Examiner . The number of discharged Marines represented slightly more than one-tenth of 1% of the total active-duty members — roughly 182,500 — the Examiner reported. The latest statistics showed that 94% of active-duty Marines were fully vaccinated, with another 1% having been partially vaccinated. Roughly 9,125 active-duty Marines — 5% of the active force — had not been vaccinated, though