One of the most shameful and unnecessary actions by our federal bureaucracy and the White House under the regime of former President Joe Biden, aided and abetted by the twisted machinations of the Scarf Queen, Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci, was the firing of members of our armed forces who refused to accept the COVID-19 mandates.
Readers likely recall this led to the separation from service of otherwise respected and honorable servicemembers. For choosing not to take the shot, Team Biden all but told our brave warfighting heroes, “Your services are no longer needed.”
That’s getting fixed under Trump 47, it appears, with a “welcome back” of sorts announcing major new change in the regulations governing “reinstatement” by the Department of War (DoW).
In a new video shared on X on Friday, DoW Sec. Pete Hegseth speaks about “correcting the wrongs” wrought by whomever was running things in the Biden White House for four years, against these “warriors of conscience”.
Watch:
UPDATE ON COVID-19 REINSTATEMENTS.
We are extending the Department’s “reinstatement and return to service” guidance by an ADDITIONAL YEAR, allowing our Warriors of Conscience to return through April 1, 2027.
We will continue correcting the wrongs of the Biden administration. pic.twitter.com/nOyxzd29tC
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) March 20, 2026
Hegseth says, in part:
I want to update you on our efforts to reinstate those servicemembers who were unjustly forced out of the military during the COVID-19 panic.
He continues, saying that while he’s happy with “what we’ve accomplished over the past year” in reinstating servicemembers, they needed to do more “to make things right” to our heroes. The original DoW policy was put in place in Apr. 2025, after President Trump signed an executive order in Jan. My colleague Streiff wrote on the change in policy. see President Trump Orders Reinstatement of Troops Discharged Over COVID Vaccine Refusal
In short, the Department of War has altered the policy in two ways which could draw more members back to active service:
- updating the length of service by reducing the commitment from four years to two years (with those who have already returned getting this retroactively, also) in the Reinstatement and Return to Service Guidance
- extending the deadline to apply for any reinstatement through April 2027
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This is fantastic news for our heroes who were unjustly separated from service during the COVID debacle under Pres. Biden. (I may adopt the term “COVID panic,” as Hegseth calls it here. Has something of a ring to it!)
It should ease the worries and concerns now that we are in the sophomore year of the second Trump term, while shoring up the ranks of our military forces degraded under the Left’s mismanagement, and restoring trust where possible with those whom we should never been kicked out of serving our nation in the first place. Wrong is wrong.
Good to see this coming to fruition at last for our warfighters!
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