The Marine Corps has booted 103 of its members for refusing the Covid vaccine
, the service announced on Thursday, even as all the military branches report that a vast majority of troops have gotten the shots.
The two Army officers, both of whom commanded active-duty battalions, join Navy Cmdr. Lucian Kins, the executive officer of the destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, who was relieved this month, as the highest-ranking officers to be punished for defying the order.
Those reprimands generally allow a soldier to continue to serve, but are seen as a block to any future promotion, effectively killing a career.
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