103 Marines booted for refusing COVID vaccine as services begin discharges
One hundred three Marines have been discharged for refusing to take the COVID vaccine, the Marine Corps said Thursday, as the military services have begun to discharge a pool of possibly as many as 30,000 active duty service members who still refuse to be vaccinated โ even after multiple opportunities to do so past vaccination deadlines.
In late August, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered mandatory COVID vaccines for all U.S. military personnel.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/103-marines-booted-refusing-covid-vaccine-services-begin/story?id=81793800
Saudis Begin Making Ballistic Missiles With Chinese Help
The effort is raising new worries about a Middle East arms race
Saudi Arabia has imported sensitive missile technology from the Chinese military and is manufacturing its own ballistic missiles, according to Saudi advisers and officials familiar with U.S. intelligence, raising new worries of a Middle East arms race.
The Saudi effort is the latest in a series of moves by U.S. allies in the Middle East to increase military cooperation with China in a trend that has angered the Biden administration during a period of heightened animosity between Washington and Beijing.
The Saudi government has sought help from the missile branch of the Chinese military, the Peopleโs Liberation Army Rocket Force, said the Saudi advisers and an official familiar with U.S. intelligence. These conversations have moved into the stage of actually acquiring hardware from the Chinese military, the advisers and the official said.
Ballistic missiles are powered by rockets that propel them in an arch-shaped trajectory upward before descending toward their target on the surface of the earth. They can be used to deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudis-begin-making-ballistic-missiles-with-chinese-help-11640294886
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/saudi-ballistic-missiles-china/index.html
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